Title: Aspasia
Description: The essay is divided into two parts. The first part is a biography of Aspasia placed within a broad historical and cultural setting. The second part is devoted to knowledge of Aspasia, who founded in the house she shared with Pericles a school for women, which also demanded access to important intellectuals and philosophers, like Socrates and Senofonte. This wise woman in the two dialogues is presented in the guise of a teacher of economics, which she founded, and erotic art.
The book includes in appendix a chronological table.
Subjects: Women orators, History, Biography, Political activity, Women, economics
Places: Athens, Greece, Miletus
People: Pericles (ca. 495-429 B.C), Aspasia
Time periods: Athenian supremacy, 479-431 B.C.