Name: The Xanthippe Fragments (en Inglés)
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Author: Gibson Becky Gould
ISBN: 9780998193366

portada The Xanthippe Fragments (en Inglés)

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Libro Físico

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St. Andrews University Press

Autor

Gibson Becky Gould

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Inglés

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Tapa Blanda

ISBN13

9780998193366

The Xanthippe Fragments (en Inglés)

Gibson Becky Gould (Autor) · St. Andrews University Press · Tapa Blanda

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The Xanthippe Fragments tells the story of a woman faced with her husband's imminent execution by the State. The year is 399 BCE, the woman Xanthippe, wife of Socrates. Cast into "fragments," the narrative spans roughly thirty days between Socrates' trial and death. Each day Xanthippe visits the shrine of Aphrodite on the Acropolis to receive succor and to leave a token of her affection. She then repairs home to care for her house and children, often chatting with her friend and neighbor Myrto. In the evening she takes a dish of greens to Socrates in prison. Or so the poet, Becky Gibson, imagines. What if Xanthippe were no shrew as her detractors insist but rather a devoted spouse, robust and intelligent, herself something of a talker -- a woman who speaks her mind? The Xanthippe of these pages goes about her daily routine as she must, perhaps out of duty, out of habit, out of the need to fend off despair. The Xanthippe Fragments is a love story, a quiet book in the voice of a woman who teaches herself how to survive.