Consort of Pericles

Usage examples of aspasia.

Since Aspasia is a Milesian by birth, her son by Pericles can never be a citizen or hold office.

Airlia, those who did not agree with Aspasia, Von Seeckt turned to Duncan.

A wild scene in the Harz Mountains gives way to an enchanted hail in which are seen the most famous courtesans of ancient history--Phryne, Lais, Aspasia, Cleopatra, and Helen of Troy.

Although General Pericles was not in the house when we arrived, Aspasia more than made up for his absence.

Democritus says that Aspasia is small, and somewhat thinner than last winter.

If Aspasia does not procure women for Pericles, as his enemies maintain, she certainly manages to attract to her house the most talented of the professional ladies in the city.

Apparently the Greek women of the Persian harem have managed, somehow, to keep in communication with their equivalents in the Greek cities, I was surprised at how much Aspasia knows about court life.

I have written on these matters elsewhere and I mention them now only to express my gratitude to the old man whose life story I am pleased to dedicate to the last living survivor of a brilliant time, Aspasia, the wife of Lysicles, the sheep-dealer.

I had taken a true Aspasia, and I thanked my stars that I had passed her by the first two times, as I had now the certainty of possessing her for fourteen hours.

In the article of woman, for instance, she may not become the being that the convention expects, but there may appear a Woman of whom all the Aspasias and Helens were only the faintest types.

Those who were blessed with handsome wives had the pleasure of seeing their houses very much frequented by admirers who aspired to win the favours of the ladies, but there was not much heroic love-making, perhaps for the reason that there were then in Corfu many Aspasias whose favours could be had for money.

One day, when he had been painting the plainlooking "Mesdames de France," who on the canvas looked like two Aspasias, I asked him the above question.

Perhaps, when she had got a few other of the good things she might try to add it to them--or might find herself able to get comfortably along without it, as had George Eliot and Aspasia, George Sand and Duse and Bernhardt and so many of the world's company of self-elected women members of the triumphant class.