Aspasia is not going out to pasture tomorrow.
But Socrates was once young, and was a direct contemporary of Aspasia's.
Supposedly a highly educated“courtesan”, Aspasia is shown in the painting enumerating the points of a speech on her fingers.
You can lie there and cry, but if one can't read Aspasia's name one ought to show a little respect.
New research conducted reveals that as a young man in 5th-century BC Athens,
he came into contact with a fiercely intelligent woman, Aspasia of Miletus.
Aspasia came from a high-born Athenian family,
related to that of Pericles, which had settled in the Greek city of Miletus in Ionia(Asia Minor) some decades earlier.
New research I have conducted reveals that as a young man in 5th-century BC Athens,
he came into contact with a fiercely intelligent woman, Aspasia of Miletus.
But Socrates is also said by
Plato to have been instructed in eloquence by Aspasia, who for more than a decade was the partner of Athens's
leading statesman Pericles.