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Chapters: Hypatia, Aspasia, Hipparchia of Maroneia, Aesara, Diotima of Mantinea, Theano, Leontion, Phintys, Sosipatra, Arete of Cyrene, Myia, Perictione, Aedesia, Arignote, Batis of Lampsacus, Asclepigenia, Aristoclea, Timycha, Axiothea of Phlius, Damo, Lastheneia of Mantinea, Themista of Lampsacus, Nicarete of Megara. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 85. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Aspasia (ca. 470 BC ca. 400 BC, Greek: ) was a Milesian woman who was famous for her involvement with the Athenian statesman Pericles. Very little is known about the details of her life. She spent most of her adult life in Athens, and she may have influenced Pericles and Athenian politics. She is mentioned in the writings of Plato, Aristophanes, Xenophon, and other authors of the day. Ancient writers also reported that Aspasia was a brothel keeper and a harlot, although these accounts are disputed by modern scholars, on the grounds that many of the writers were comic poets concerned with defaming Pericles. Some researchers question even the historical tradition that she was a hetaera, or courtesan, and have suggested that she may actually have been married to Pericles. Aspasia had a son by Pericles, Pericles the Younger, who later became a general in the Athenian military and was executed after the Battle of Arginusae. She is believed to have become the courtesan of Lysicles, another Athenian statesman and general, following the death of Pericles the Elder. Aspasia was born in the Ionian Greek city of Miletus (in the modern province of Aydn, Turkey). Little is known about her family except that her father's name was Axiochus, although it is evident that she must have belonged to a wealthy family, for only the well-to-do could have afforded the excellent education that she received. Some ancient sou...More: http: //,booksllc.net/?id=23144
Ancient Greek Women Philosophers: Hypatia, Aspasia, Hipparchia of Maroneia, Aesara, Diotima of Mantinea, Theano, Leontion, Phintys, Sosipatra