hetaira

How to use hetaira in a sentence

• In Greece and Rome there was, perhaps you know, a certain class of females called hetaira, also a class of males called parasites.

  A Fantasy of Far Japan | Baron Kencho Suyematsu

• Everyone recognized the beautiful hetaira as Aphrodite, and she was hailed, as with one voice, the Queen of the World.

  Serapis, Complete | Georg Ebers

• These thoughts, he says, have been suggested to him by the life of the hetaira Thais whose body and soul are ever at variance.

  Woman under Monasticism | Lina Eckenstein

• The nun generally was emancipated from man as thoroughly as the hetaira had been from marriage.

  Historia Amoris: A History of Love, Ancient and Modern | Edgar Saltus

• The Greek ideal of woman which the hetaira exemplified was beauty.

  Historia Amoris: A History of Love, Ancient and Modern | Edgar Saltus