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Aspasia of Miletus: The Woman Who Shaped Athenian Thought
In this episode, Lucas and Luna explore the life and influence of Aspasia of Miletus, the foreign-born companion of Pericles who became one of the most influential—and controversial—women in classical Athens. As a metic and a woman, Aspasia had no political rights, yet she hosted a salon that drew Socrates, Phidias, and the leading thinkers of the age. Plato credits her as the inspiration for Diotima in the Symposium; Aristophanes blamed her for the Peloponnesian War. Lucas traces her journey from Miletus to Athens, her relationship with Pericles, the scandalous trials that targeted her, and…
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