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Boys and Men
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The hetaira
The always- sympathetic hetaira assists a young
man who has had too much to drink
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The hetaira
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The hetaira
A hetaira laces on her sandals (first ) Modest
married women wore caps like that possibly
hetairai did so to imitate respectability or
because there was a strong cultural preference
for keeping womens hair covered.
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Aspasia of Miletus
What art or charming faculty did she have, to
enable her to captivate the greatest statesmen,
and to give the philosophers occasion to speak so
much of her, and not to her disparagement? She
was Milesian by birth, daughter of Axiochus
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Aspasia of Miletus
Aspasia modeled herself on Thargelia Thargelia
was a great beauty, extremely charming, and at
the same time sagacious she had numerous suitors
among the Greeks, and brought all who had to do
with her over to the Persian interest, and by
their means, being men of the greatest power and
station, sowed the seeds of the Median faction up
and down in several cities (Plutarch)
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Aspasia of Miletus
Aspasia, some say, was courted and caressed by
Pericles on account of her knowledge and skill in
politics. Socrates himself would sometimes go
visit her, and some of his acquaintance with him,
and those who frequented her company would carry
their wives with them to listen to her. Her
occupation was anything but creditable, her house
being a home for young courtesans. Plutarch
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Aspasia of Miletus
Lysicles, a man of low birth and character, by
keeping Aspasia company after Pericles death,
came to be chief man in Athens. And Plato tells
us she had the reputation of being resorted to by
many of the Athenians for instruction in the art
of speaking. Pericles inclination for her seems,
however, to have proceeded from the passion of
love He loved her with wonderful affection.
Every day, both as he went out and as he came
home, he kissed her. Plutarch
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