[2] Her illustrious family goes back to Dropides, archon of the year 644 b.c.
[3] She was married to Ariston, and had three sons (Glaucon, Adeimantus, and Plato) and a daughter (Potone).
[4] After Ariston's death, she remarried Pyrilampes, an Athenian statesman and her uncle.
[5] Two spurious works attributed to Perictione have survived in fragments, On the Harmony of Women and On Wisdom.
On the Harmony of Women, concerns the duties of a woman to her husband, her marriage, and to her parents; it is written in Ionic Greek and probably dates to the late 4th or 3rd century BC.