Article Title

Xanthippe to her Mother

Authors

Ginger Osborn

Abstract

The following is a translation of an ancient manuscript, presumably a late-Hellenistic school exercise, recovered from the so-called Villa of the Papyri in Herculaneum, which was entombed by the eruption of Vesuvius in 79 BCE. The library was well-stocked with philosophical works, mostly of an Epicurean bent, but with a variety of other traditions represented as well. The text below is the result of the editorial work and translation of the Italo-Brtitish philosophical eccentric Michael Tommasi, completed presumably in Cambridge in the 1940s, but never published; his literary executors discovered the manuscript among his posthumous papers. Several revisions to Tommasi's original have been made by Ginger Osborn.

Keywords

Socrates; Xanthippe; Creative writing

Recommended Citation

Osborn, Ginger (2016) "Xanthippe to her Mother," Sophia and Philosophia: Vol. 1: Iss. 1, Article 2.
Available at: https://repository.belmont.edu/sph/vol1/iss1/2