Aspasia: Luminary of Athens

"CENTER OF A CIRCLE SO LUMINOUS THAT THE AGES HAVE NOT GREATLY DIMMED ITS RADIANCE..."

"It was a matter of gossip that [Pericles] kissed Aspasia when he went out and when he came in-clearly a startling innovation among Athenian husbands. . . .Plutarch tells us that some went so far as to say that he paid court to her on account of her wisdom and political sagacity. Socrates confesses his own indebtedness to her in his use of language and says that she made many great orators." -from within

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