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Aspasia of Miletus: The Woman Behind Pericles
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 talked-about women in classical Athens. They discuss her probable background as a hetaera, her intellectual circle that included Socrates and Anaxagoras, and her alleged role in crafting Pericles' famous Funeral Oration. The episode also examines the legal and social restrictions on citizen women, the scandalous trial for asebeia that targeted her, and how comic poets like Aristophanes mocked her as a political puppet master. Through the…
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