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    Xanthippe Personality Type, MBTI

    What is the personality type of Xanthippe? Which MBTI personality type best fits? Personality type for Xanthippe from Historical Figures 1st Millenium Bce and what is the personality traits.

    Xanthippe
    ESTJ

    ESTJ (8w9)

    Xanthippe personality type is ESTJ, which means she is an Enterprising, Steady, and Stable government official.

    Background

    Xanthippe was the wife of Socrates, the famous philosopher. She was also the mother of his son, Plato.

    Xanthippe had a difficult relationship with her husband and son. She believed that Socrates was too obsessed with philosophy and that he would never be able to provide for her and their son.

    Xanthippe and Socrates were deeply in love and wanted to start a family together. However, Xanthippe was unable to conceive and was known to have affairs with other men.

    Xanthippe was partly responsible for getting Socrates put on trial for his political beliefs. She was reported to have said:

    "My dear Socrates, the people will not listen to anything you have to say. I've heard them saying they do not believe you are a philosopher at all, and that you should be tried as a criminal." —Xanthippe, The Clouds by Aristophanes

    After Socrates was put on trial and found guilty of corrupting the youth and for not honoring the gods, he drank hemlock and died.

    Xanthippe (/zænˈθɪpi/; Greek: Ξανθίππη, Ancient: [ksantʰípɛː], Modern: [ksanˈθipi]; 5th–4th century BCE) was an ancient Athenian, the wife of Socrates and mother of their three sons: Lamprocles, Sophroniscus, and Menexenus. She was likely much younger than Socrates, perhaps by as much as 40 years.

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