hetaira
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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 Saltus, Edgar
This fact renders it more intelligible why a woman of such intellectual distinction as Aspasia should have been a hetaira.
From Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 6 Sex in Relation to Society by Ellis, Havelock
The Greek ideal of woman which the hetaira exemplified was beauty.
From Historia Amoris: A History of Love, Ancient and Modern by Saltus, Edgar
The historians speak of Doricha, an hetaira mentioned by Sappho, the famous poetess, as the mistress of her brother Charaxus, who was a wine-merchant at Lésbos and travelled constantly to Naucratis.
From The Tour A Story of Ancient Egypt by Couperus, Louis
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 Saltus, Edgar
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