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+aspasiafrom 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...