... permitted to attend.3 Aspasia became the most famous and influential of the hetaerae. Her legacy became anything but silent and she appears in multiple historical works by Plato, Xenophon, Cicero, Athenaeus, and Plutarch.4 It is clear she had an immense impact on her male counterparts, perhaps the most over her live-in ... origins controlled citizenship.20 Aspasia became so powerful through Pericles that she was able to open a school in which she lectured on philosophy and taught debate.21 She often invited scholars, and urged female Athenians to attend with their husbands. Her position...

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