hetaira
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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
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
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 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
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
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 Finck, Henry Theophilus
For the hetairai did not shun the light of day, and were not restrained by the law.
From Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life by Haines, T. L. (Thomas Louis)
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 Kenealy, Arabella
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 Finck, Henry Theophilus
For these Grecian hetairai comprised, in the main, the flower of their generation.
From Feminism and Sex-Extinction by Kenealy, Arabella
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