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Book: Women Writers of Ancient Greece and Rome

Chapter: Aspasia

DOI: 10.1558/equinox.19994

Blurb:

(fl. 450 BC)

Aspasia is one of the most famous women of classical Greece, yet little is known of her life, and most of what was written about her in her own day is dubious. As the partner of Pericles, Athens’ leading statesman in the mid-fifth century BC, Aspasia moved in the highest aristocratic circles and attracted the attention of comic and serious writers.

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