references concerning image of Aspasia 470?-410 BCE.


References to Aspasia:

"Aspasia was beloved of Pericles, who, says Plutarch, was attracted to 'her rare political wisdom.' " from http://penelope.uchicago.edu/~grout/encyclopaedia_romana/greece/hetairai/aspasia.html

Aspasia of Miletus at http://www.mala.bc.ca/~mcneil/aspasia.htm

"Aspasia was the mistress of Pericles, the leader of Athens during the Classical Age...."
from  http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/text?lookup=encyclopedia+aspasia

from Plato Menexenus 235e:

[235e] Menexenus: And do you think that you yourself would be able to make the speech, if required and if the Council were to select you?

Socrates: That I should be able to make the speech would be nothing wonderful, Menexenus; for she who is my instructor is by no means weak in the art of rhetoric; on the contrary, she has turned out many fine orators, and amongst them one who surpassed all other Greeks, Pericles, the son of Xanthippus.

Menexenus: Who is she? But you mean Aspasia, no doubt.

Socrates: I do...