Miscellanies 4.19.122 · Sophia Scriptura

Greek text · Stählin 2:302

Ἀρήτη δὲ ἡ Ἀριστίππου ἡ Κυρηναϊκὴ τὸν Μητροδίδακτον ἐπικληθέντα ἐπαίδευσεν Ἀρίστιππον. παρὰ Πλάτωνί τε ἐφιλοσόφουν Λασθένεια ἡ Ἀρκαδία καὶ Ἀξιοθέα ἡ Φλιασία· Ἀσπασίας γὰρ τῆς Μιλησίας, περὶ ἧς καὶ οἱ κωμικοὶ πολλὰ δὴ καταγράφουσιν, Σωκράτης μὲν ἀπέλαυσεν εἰς φιλοσοφίαν, Περικλῆς δὲ εἰς ῥητορικήν. παραπέμπομαι τοίνυν τὰς ἄλλας διὰ τὸ μῆκος τοῦ λόγου, μήτε τὰς ποιητρίας καταλέγων, Κόρινναν καὶ Τελέσιλλαν Μυῖάν τε καὶ Σαπφώ, ἢ τὰς ζωγράφους, καθάπερ Εἰρήνην τὴν Κρατίνου θυγατέρα καὶ Ἀναξάνδραν τὴν Νεάλκους, ἃς φησι Δίδυμος ἐν Συμποσιακοῖς.

English · Claude translation

Arete of Cyrene, daughter of Aristippus, educated Aristippus, called “the Mother-taught.” With Plato there philosophized Lastheneia of Arcadia and Axiothea of Phlius. For of Aspasia of Miletus, about whom the comic poets write much, Socrates made use for philosophy and Pericles for rhetoric. I pass over the others because of the length of the discussion, not listing the poetesses, Corinna and Telesilla, Myia and Sappho, nor the painters, such as Irene, daughter of Cratinus, and Anaxandra, daughter of Nealces, of whom Didymus speaks in his Symposiaca.

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Source

Stählin 2:302 · Otto Stählin, ed., Clemens Alexandrinus, vol. 2, Stromata Buch I–VI, GCS 15 (Leipzig: Hinrichs, 1906); vol. 3, Stromata Buch VII und VIII, GCS 17 (Leipzig: Hinrichs, 1909) · Greek text: Otto Stählin, Clemens Alexandrinus 2–3 (GCS 15, 17, 1906–1909), digitized by the Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA 4.0

Text

As printed in Stählin, GCS 15, 17. Manuscript variants and the editor's apparatus are not reproduced; no textual problem is noted in this passage.

Translation

Claude translation (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 · Translated by Claude from the Greek text of Stählin (1906–1909); made independently of existing English translations.

Compare

Ante-Nicene Fathers, vol. 2 (1885) (an older public-domain English translation, whole volume at CCEL; checked against ours only after ours was made) · Book 3 is left partly untranslated (in Latin) there.

Topics

Ethics

Notes

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (wrong accent on the relative ἃς): Ἀναξάνδραν τὴν Νεάλκους, ἅς φησι Δίδυμος → Ἀναξάνδραν τὴν Νεάλκους, ἃς φησι Δίδυμος.

Cite this passage

Clement of Alexandria, Strom. 4.19.122 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-stromata/4/19/122/).

Plain text

Clement of Alexandria, Strom. 4.19.122 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-stromata/4/19/122/).