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Phaenarete

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{{For|the genus of moth|Phaenarete (moth)}}{{Refimprove|date=May 2008}}Phaenarete (Greek Φαιναρέτη), wife of Sophroniscus, was the mother of the Greek philosopher Socrates and his half-brother, Patrocles. (Since Sophroniscus had died before 424 BC, he was probably Phaenarete's first husband, while Chaeredemus, father of Patrocles, was her second.)^[1] The name Phaenarete means "She who brings virtue to light".^[2] And it is, according to A.E. Taylor, "suggestive of good family connexions", based on its appearance in the genealogy of the immortal Amphitheus in Aristophanes' Acharnians.^[3]

Very little is known of the life of Phaenarete but that she was of a Pelasgian influence.^[4] In Plato's Theaetetus, Socrates compares his own work as a philosopher with hers as a maia (midwife).^[5] According to John Burnet, the role of maia was "performed by women of good family, and the translation 'midwife' is quite misleading."^[6]

References

1. ^p. 235, Debra Nails, The People of Plato, Hackett, 2002.
2. ^Plato. Theaetetus. Indianapolis, Indiana: Hackett Publishing Company, Inc., 1992. Print. {{ISBN|0-87220-158-9}}
3. ^p. 102, "Plato's Biography of Socrates", Proceedings of the British Academy vol. 8 (1917).
4. ^[https://books.google.com/books?id=mVHA9YVC6GQC "Sisterhood is Global: The International Women's Movement Anthology"], Robin Morgan. Feminist Press at CUNY, 1984. p. 269
5. ^Theaetetus 149a.
6. ^Encyclopaedia of Religion and Ethics, s.v., "Socrates", 1919.

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