hetaira
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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 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 Greek ideal of woman which the hetaira exemplified was beauty.
From Historia Amoris: A History of Love, Ancient and Modern by Saltus, Edgar
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 Ellis, Havelock
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
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
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 Huneker, James
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
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
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