1. Aspasia and Feminism in Ancient Greece
... should see and hear as little as possible, and ask the fewest possible questions."10 Lastly, Hyperides wrote, "a woman who leaves the house ought to be at the stage in life where people who meet her ask not whose wife she is, but whose mother."11 Clearly women lived in a different world than men in Athenian society. According ... .35 Finally, it was suggested that Aspasia being a hetaerae encouraged Pericles sexual escapades by arranging meeting for him with young boys and girls.36 Aspasia was put on trial in front of the ecclesia. After seeing loved ones suffer attack after attack Peric...
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