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Aspasia of Miletus: The Woman Who Shaped Periclean Athens
We all know Pericles — the general, the orator, the man who turned Athens into a democracy. But behind him stood a woman who was arguably the most influential intellectual in Athens: Aspasia of Miletus. A foreigner, a metic, and a woman in a city that excluded women from public life, Aspasia ran a salon that attracted Socrates, Sophists, and the city's elite. She taught rhetoric, shaped Pericles' speeches — including the famous Funeral Oration — and was so powerful that comedians mocked her as a brothel-keeper and politicians blamed her for wars. But what do we actually know about…
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