A 1995 book by Madeline Mary Henry describes this person as a Prisoner of History due to a lack of details with which to construct a sound biography.
A 1995 book by Madeline Mary Henry describes this person as a Prisoner of History due to a lack of details with which to construct a sound biography. Antisthenes and Aeschines both wrote lost dialogues named for this child of Axiochus, who lived with Lysicles for about a year until Lysicles's death in battle in Caria. This member of the metics, the second title character of an Imaginary Conversation by Walter Savage Landor, is the only woman mentioned by name in Cicero's De Inventione. Plutarch blamed this woman for inciting a (*) 440 BC war against Samos. Other than Phryne, this rumored oratory instructor-slash ghostwriter is the most famous hetaira. For 10 points, name this frequent target of slander in Athenian comedy, a woman from Miletus who became the courtesan and lover of Pericles in classical Athens.
A 1995 book by Madeline Mary Henry describes this person as a Prisoner of History due to a lack of details with which to construct a sound biography.
Aspasia of Miletus