... good nature with regards to his impoverished earthly existence and his brash intellect. Once his wife Xanthippe became infuriated at his indifference toward her reproach. She then drenched him with water out of frustration. When later asked of the incident Socrates responded, "Did I not say that Xanthippe's thunder would end in rain?" One man spoke up and called her temper intolerable ... him before his ideas caught on. It would have been a devastating blow to the political hierarchy of Athens. For their effort, it would seem that Socrates had quite a crowd gathering beneath him to attr...

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