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When was Aspasia born? When did she die?

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When was Aspasia born? When did she die?

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DOB-- Around 450 BC
DOD-- 401 BC

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Aspasia of Miletus is best known as the consort and close companion of the great Athenian statesman Pericles. She was a metic ( not a person born in Athens), and accordingly, was not allowed to marry an Athenian and she had to pay taxes to live in Athens.

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Her name means “greeting with affection” or “welcome” and it has been suggested that `Aspasia’ was not her real name but, rather, a “professional” name as she worked as a hetaira, a high-class paid companion. She operated a salon (which her critics called a `brothel’) and a girl’s school (also cited by her detractors as either a brothel or a house in which she secured young girls for Pericles’ pleasure).

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Aspasia was born in the Ionian colony of Miletus on the coast of Asia Minor and immigrated to Athens about 450 B.C, where she resided as a metic or resident alien. She was accomplished courtesan, educated and trained in the art of conversation and entertainment, and may have met Pericles at symposium. Not permitted to marry an Athenian citizen (ironically, because of legislation that Pericles, himself, had enacted shortly before Aspasia arrived), she came to live with him as his concubine after Pericles divorced his wife (c.445 BC, if not earlier) and bore him a child of the same name.

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“About Aspasia | Biography | Hetaera, Philosopher, Poet | Greece.” UpClosed, upclosed.com/people/aspasia/.

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Aspasia of Miletus, 15 Feb. 2019, www.classicalathensgoldenage.com/aspasia_miletus.htm

Mark, Joshua J. “Aspasia of Miletus: The Art of Eloquence.” Ancient History Encyclopedia, Ancient History Encyclopedia, 18 Jan. 2012, www.ancient.eu/article/80/aspasia-of-miletus-the-art-of-eloquence/.

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“Unless you believe there are no better men or finer woman on Earth you will certainly crave for what you consider as the best. Meaning, you want to be the husband of the very best of wives, and that she wants to marry the most exemplary man."