A Biographical Dictionary of the Celebrated Women of Every Age and Country/Arete
ARETE, two of that Name, one Wife, the other Daughter of Aristippus, of Cyrene.
This celebrated philosopher had instructed them with so much success, that his wife was able to teach philosophy and the sciences to her son, who was therefore called Metrodidactos, taught by his mother: and after the death of Aristippus, his daughter was unanimously elected head of the school. All her cotemporaries have cited her as a prodigy of beauty, virtue, understanding and knowledge. The five daughters of Diodorus Cronus were likewise famous for their knowledge and virtue.
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