1. Aspasia and Feminism in Ancient Greece
... woman were not 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 lover Pericles. However, she became the ... all the visitors to Aspasia's school, Socrates was the most famous. Based on the evidence it is clear that he admired Aspasia for her intellect. Xenophon cites Socrates in the Symposium as saying, "that the female...
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