Aspasia x Pericles: Love in the Time of Plague
This is the story of the elite courtesan and philosopher Aspasia, and her partner Pericles.
Ancient History Fangirl · Jenny Williamson and Genn McMenemy
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Show Notes
Last week, we told you about the lives of five courtesans in Classical Athens. But we left someone out--perhaps the most elite hetaera of them all.
Long-term partner of a leading Athenian statesman, darling of the philosophical set, survivor of the plague of Athens—she threw her own parties, and they were the best parties ever thrown within a hundred-mile radius of Athens. No one has done better since. Her name was Aspasia.
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