A Cyclopaedia of Female Biography/Arete
ARETE,
Was the daughter of Aristippus of Cyrene, who flourished about B. C. 380, and was the founder of the Cyrcnaic system of philosophy. Arete was carefully instructed by her father; and after his death she taught his system with great success. She had a son, Aristippus, to whom she communicated the philosophy she received from her father.