How to train a wife
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- How to train a wife
- Socrates is telling a conversation he once had with Ischomachus about his wife
- Ischomachus explains that his wife is very well trained and he can trust her to look after the oikos
- She is manageable and well educated and she can take part in intellectual conversation
- Ischomachus explains that his wife is very well trained and he can trust her to look after the oikos
- Theme: attitudes to marriage
- Some men were respectable to their wife ad taught them how to behave.
- Some women didn't need training, even more worthy of respect
- Authorship: Xenephon was a student of socrates and therefore got first hand information which may be more trustworthy
- Socrates is telling a conversation he once had with Ischomachus about his wife
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