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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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Ancient History Fangirl

Jenny Williamson and Genn McMenemy

RE-RELEASE: Aspasia x Pericles: Love in the Time of Plague

FEB 1, 202448 MIN
Ancient History Fangirl

RE-RELEASE: Aspasia x Pericles: Love in the Time of Plague

FEB 1, 202448 MIN

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Help keep our podcast going by contributing to our Patreon!

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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