... for a marriage for the sake of having a child, they also have words that translate as "cohabit" or "live together." This leads to the conclusion that our traditional connotation of marriage as a bond is not the way it was in Athens. The reasons for a man and a woman to be ... had intellectual training, and most were very attractive. In many cases, these women became more entertaining companions to the men then their wives were. Pericles, the thirty-year political leader of Athens, fell in love with a hetairai, named Aspasia. "It is no accident that the most famous woman ... story about ...

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