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Author Henry, Madeleine Mary, 1949-

Title Prisoner of history : Aspasia of Miletus and her biographical tradition / Madeleine M. Henry
Published New York : Oxford University Press, 1995

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Description 1 online resource (201 pages) : illustrations
Series OUP E-Books
Contents Introduction; 1. Aspasia in Greek History; 2. The Story Told by Comedy; 3. Aspasia and the Socratic Tradition; 4. The Sargasso Sea: Aspasia and the Discourse on Prostitutes in the Hellenistic, Roman, and Late Antique Periods; 5. Aspasia in the Postclassical West; Afterword; Notes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; V; W; X; Z
Summary According to legend, Aspasia of Miletus was a courtesan, the teacher of Socrates, and the political adviser of her lover Pericles. Next to Sappho and Cleopatra, she is the best known woman of the ancient Mediterranean. Yet continued uncritical reception of her depiction in Attic comedy and naive acceptance of Plutarch's account of her in his Life of Pericles prevent us from understanding who she was and what her contributions to Greek thought may have been. Madeleine Henry combines traditional philological and historical methods of analysis with feminist critical perspectives, in order to trac
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 177-193) and index
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Subject Aspasia
Pericles, 499-429 B.C
SUBJECT Aspasia fast
Pericles, approximately 495 B.C.-429 B.C. fast
Subject Mistresses -- Greece -- Athens -- Biography
Women -- Political activity -- Greece -- Athens -- Biography
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Historical.
HISTORY -- Ancient.
Mistresses
Women -- Political activity
Biografieën.
Vrouwenfiguren.
Griekse oudheid.
SUBJECT Greece -- History -- Athenian supremacy, 479-431 B.C. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85057082
Subject Greece
Greece -- Athens
Genre/Form collective biographies.
History
Biographies
Electronic books.
Biographies.
Biographies.
Form Electronic book
LC no. 94001250
ISBN 0585372462
9780585372464