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She was a contemporary of Socrates. She taught philosophy in a school in Attica. She was the daughter of Aristippus, the founder of the Cyenaic school of philosophy. Even in the time of Boccaccio (1313 - 1375 CE), 1,000 years later, she was still honored as a veritable prodigy of learning, writer of forty books, teacher of over 110 philosophers. Her epitaph
The splendor of Greeceillustrates the high regard in which she was held.The beauty of Helen
The virtue of Thirma
the pen of Aristippos
the soul of Socrates
and the tongue of Homer.