Myrto
Sign in to savethumb|right|Socrates, his two Wives, and Alcibiades. Painting by [[Reyer van Blommendael]] Myrto (; ; fl. 5th century BC) was a descendant of the Athenian politician Aristides and, according to some accounts, a wife of Socrates. The historicity and details of her relationship with Socrates were disputed in antiquity, and many modern scholars dismiss it.
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There are several artists with this or a similar name: 1. a Swiss female singer, 2. a French female singer-songwriter, 3. a k-pop boy group spelled MYTRO. --- 1) Myrto Joannidis is a Swiss Mundart singer and presenter. She became known as the singer of the now defunct band Subzonic and started a solo career in 2004. Myrto has Greek roots. Her first album Myrto was released in 2004 and reached number 29 in the Swiss charts. On August 17, 2006, her second album entitled Die mit O was released; it
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thumb|right|Socrates, his two Wives, and Alcibiades. Painting by [[Reyer van Blommendael]] Myrto (; ; fl. 5th century BC) was a descendant of the Athenian politician Aristides and, according to some accounts, a wife of Socrates. The historicity and details of her relationship with Socrates were disputed in antiquity, and many modern scholars dismiss it.
==Sources== Neither Plato nor Xenophon, the earliest sources on Socrates' life, mention Myrto. Diogenes Laertius, Athenaeus, and Plutarch all cite Aristotle's treatise On Being Well-Born as the source of Myrto's story. Though surviving fragments of the treatise do mention a "daughter of Aristides", they neither talk about Myrto by name or suggest any relationship with Socrates. Additionally, in the Rhetoric, Aristotle cites Socrates' family alongside those of Pericles and Cimon as being of noble birth; this may allude to the story that he had children by Myrto.
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