Aspasia of Miletus Books
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Definition
While Aspasia herself wrote nothing extant, her influence is apparent in the writings of her contemporaries (mainly derogatory slurs against her and her lover, Pericles, but some positive commentaries as well) and, moreso, in later centuries when a less biased and more honest appraisal of the roles of women in antiquity brought to light her many virtues and contributions. As a metic (a non-Athenian) she could not legally marry Pericles but bore him a son, known also as Pericles, who was later a General of note. In the 19th and 20th centuries, mainly owing to the works of Walter Savage Landor and Gertrude Atherton, respectively, she was viewed as a romantic heroine of the Golden Age of Athens. Aspasia is recognized today as an intellectual and teacher of enormous ability.
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Aspasia was born around 470 B.C. in Miletus in Asia Minor. She was likely born into a wealthy family, because she was known to have been highly educated and well versed. How she arrived in Athens is the source of some debate among scholars. A few sources suggest that she traveled there when her older sister married Alcibiades, who had been ostracized from Athens, and had spent his expulsion in Miletus.
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