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1 online resource (201 pages) : illustrations |
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polychrome |
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text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 177-193) and index. |
| 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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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Aspasia.
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Aspasia. |
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Pericles, approximately 495 B.C.-429 B.C.
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Pericles, approximately 495 B.C.-429 B.C. |
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Aspasia. |
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Pericles, 499 B.C.-429 B.C. |
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Mistresses -- Greece -- Athens -- Biography.
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Mistresses. |
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Greece -- Athens. |
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Biographies.
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Women -- Political activity -- Greece -- Athens -- Biography.
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Women -- Political activity. |
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Greece -- History -- Athenian supremacy, 479-431 B.C.
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479-431 B.C |
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Electronic books.
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History.
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Women. |
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Womyn. |
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Biographies.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Henry, Madeleine Mary, 1949- Prisoner of history. New York : Oxford University Press, 1995 0195087127 (DLC) 94001250 (OCoLC)29794345 |
| ISBN |
0585372462 (electronic book) |
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9780585372464 (electronic book) |
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0195087127 |
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9780195087123 |
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160129963X |
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9781601299635 |
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1280442328 |
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9781280442322 |
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