1. Aspasia and Feminism in Ancient Greece
... shrew" for often shouting at Socrates and berating him publicly.2 However, she was an expectation to the norm, alongside a group of foreign-born, well educated, courtesan woman, called hetaerae, that were paid to accompany men to places that other woman were not permitted to attend.3 Aspasia became the most ... to her or one she took when entering the courtesan profession.6 Despite the fact that we can never truly know who Aspasia was, there is good reason to believe she had been a powerful and influential woman because while all other woman remained silent and absent from written record...
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