hetaira
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hetairai
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The nun generally was emancipated from man as thoroughly as the hetaira had been from marriage.
From Historia Amoris: A History of Love, Ancient and Modern by Edgar Saltus
In some respects the position of the ancient Greek hetaira was more analogous to that of the Japanese geisha than to that of the prostitute in the strict sense.
From Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 6 Sex in Relation to Society by Havelock Ellis
Aspasia had come from Miletus with another hetaira to Athens which her companion vacated to be bride of a Thessalian king, but where she became the wife of one beside whom mere kings were nothing.
From Historia Amoris: A History of Love, Ancient and Modern by Edgar Saltus
These, mounting behind Sappho’s songs, spread through Hellas, creating as they spread a caste that borrowed from the girl her freedom, from the bard his wit, and, from the fusion, produced the hetaira.
From Historia Amoris: A History of Love, Ancient and Modern by Edgar Saltus
The Greek ideal of woman which the hetaira exemplified was beauty.
From Historia Amoris: A History of Love, Ancient and Modern by Edgar Saltus
In actual life a certain chivalrous attitude toward women existed at most toward hetairai, in which case, as a matter of course, it was adulterated with a very unpleasant ingredient of frivolous sentimentality….
From Primitive Love and Love-Stories by Henry Theophilus Finck
Very different from the social position of chaste women was that of the hetairai.
From Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life by T. L. (Thomas Louis) Haines
The only women who were free were the hetairai, those famous ladies who shed a lurid brilliance over the corruption and decline of this great State—a decline wherewith they had, most certainly, much to do.
From Feminism and Sex-Extinction by Arabella Kenealy
We prefer this side of the art of Legrand to his studies of sinister jail-birds, hetairai, noctambules, high kickers, and private bars, the horrors of Parisian night life.
From Promenades of an Impressionist by James Huneker
Propertius not only writes with the hetairai in his mind, but, like his Alexandrian models, he appears as one who is forever writing love-poems without ever being really in love.
From Primitive Love and Love-Stories by Henry Theophilus Finck
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