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Aspasia

beautiful and capable Milesian consort of Pericles, proper name from fem. of Greek aspasios "welcome," related to aspazesthai "to welcome," which is of uncertain origin.

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Aspasia

Aspasia (; ; c. 470 BC – c. 400 BC) was an influential immigrant to Classical-era Athens who was the lover and partner of the statesman Pericles. The couple had a son, Pericles the Younger, but the full details of the couple's marital status are unknown. According to Plutarch, her house became an intellectual centre in Athens, attracting the most prominent writers and thinkers, including the philosopher Socrates. It has also been suggested that the teachings of Aspasia influenced Socrates. Aspasia was mentioned in the writing of philosophers Plato, Aristophanes, Xenophon, and other authors of the day. Though she spent most of her adult life in Greece, few details of her life are fully known. Some scholars suggest that Aspasia was a brothel keeper and a prostitute. Aspasia's role in history provides crucial insight to the understanding of the women of ancient Greece. Very little is known about women from her time period. One scholar stated that, "To ask questions about Aspasia's life is to ask questions about half of humanity."

Aspásia

Aspásia is a municipality in the state of São Paulo in Brazil. The population is 1,848 (2015 est.) in an area of 69.3 km². The elevation is 595 m.

Aspasia (disambiguation)

Aspasia was an Athenian woman and a friend of Pericles.

Aspasia may also refer to:

  • Aspasia (journal), a journal of gender history
  • Aspasia (plant), an orchid genus
  • Aspásia, a city in São Paulo state, Brazil
  • Aspasia Manos was the wife of Alexander of Greece and the only modern Greek royal consort not styled as Queen.
  • Aspazija, a Latvian poet and playwright.
  • Aspasia, the name of both the wife and daughter of Artaxerxes II of Persia
  • Aspasia the Physician c.200 important in Gynaecology#History
Aspasia (journal)

Aspasia: The International Yearbook of Central, Eastern, and Southeastern European Women's and Gender History is an annual peer-reviewed academic journal covering research on women's and gender history in central, eastern, and southeastern Europe. Aspasia was founded in 2006 by Francisca de Haan at the Gender Studies Department of the Central European University. In the first decade of its existence, the yearbook has become an important outlet for feminist research conducted by scholars from Central and Eastern Europe. In addition to original research articles, the yearbook publishes forums on topics related to women’s and gender history, as well as numerous English book reviews of texts published in the languages of Central and Eastern Europe.

Aspasia (plant)

Aspasia, abbreviated as Asp. in the horticultural trade, is a genus of 7 species of orchids occurring from southern Mexico to southern Brazil. The genus is closely related to Miltonia and Brassia. Aspasia species have few medium size flowers of exquisite colors which are occasionally cultivated or used to produce artificial hybrids.

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.