1. Aspasia and Feminism in Ancient Greece
... 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 ... home it broke the traditional mold. Marie Delcourt wrote in her study on Pericles, "No one would have thought the less of Pericles for making love to young boys, but they (referring to Athenian citizens) were shocked by his treating Aspasia like a human being." Delcourt goes on...
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