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INDIVIDUALS IN SOCIETYASPECTe< < I f it is necessary for me indeed to speak offemale virtues , to those of you who haveI now become widows , I shall explain theentire situation briefly . It is in your hands whetherRoman portrait of Aspasiayou will not fall below your nature . The greatestbased on a Greek statue .glory to you is to be least talked about by men(Vatican Museums / Vanni /}either for excellence or blame " ( ThucydidesArt Resource , NY )2.46 .1 ) . These words were reportedly uttered byPericles to the widows . at a public funeral honor -ing those killed during the first year of theprotector , and she disappears from the his -Peloponnesian War . We have no ideatorical record shortly afterward . Ever more*whether Pericles actually said somethingembellished stories about her continued tolike this - Thucydides often insertedbe told , however . By the time of the RO -speeches to make his history more dra-man biographer Plutarch in the first cen -matic - but these words express thetury C .E . , it was said that she held publicAthenian ideal of proper behavior for aphilosophical discussions , was put oncitizen's wife : she should stay at hometrial for impiety , and became the mis -and limit her talents to her household .tress of another Athenian general afterThis ideal became the reality for mostPericles's death .\Athenian women , whose names and ac-It is almost impossible to separatetions were not recorded and thus are lostthe historical Aspasia from the imagi -to history .mary one , but what is clear is that herOne exception to this silence is Aspasia ( 25 - PAY - Zhuh ) , whostatus was dependent on her personal relationships withwas born in the Greek city of Miletus and came to Athensprominent men . She may well have been a gifted and intelli -in about 445 B . C .E . Little is known for certain about her life -gent speaker , but her actions were severely limited because ofThucydides never mentions her - but she appears to haveher status as a noncitizen in a place where citizenship was es-played a role in Athenian society . that was far different fromsential , and even more , because of her status as a woman .that prescribed in Pericles's speech . Because she was not anThanks largely to her enemies , we do know her name , but As -Athenian , she could not marry an Athenian citizen . Instead pasia lacked the honored social position of the anonymousof marrying another non- Athenian , she caught the eye ofAthenian citizen women her lover Pericles may have praised .Pericles . After he had divorced his wife , Aspasia became hismistress and bore him a son , also named Pericles . She mayhave been a hetaera , one of the high-status courtesans in Ath -\QUESTIONS FOR ANALYSISens who provided men with witty conversation at dinner par -\1 . What allowed Aspasia to have a position quite differentties as well as sexual services . The first person to mention herfrom that seen as ideal in Pericles's speech ?\status as a hetaera was the comic playwright Aristophanes .2 . Why might Pericles's enemies have enhanced accountsAristophanes was an opponent of Pericles , however , and heabout her talents and her influence over him ? Can youmay have simply made this up . Other authors , including Plato ,think of more recent parallels ?`do discuss Aspasia , but they focus on her ability with wordsand her wit ( which they see as good ) and her influence overPericles ( which they generally see as bad ) . In one of Plato'sdialogues , Socrates even says that Pericles learned his theto-ONLINE DOCUMENT ASSIGNMENTfrom Aspasia , and that she wrote the famous funeral ora -What does Aspasia's story reveal about thetion . Most scholars see this not as a statement of fact , but asexpectations and ideals surrounding gender inan attempt by Socrates to ridicule Pericles and criticize hisclassical Greek society ? Go to the Integrated Mediagrowing power in Athens .\and ananalyze texts and images that testify to GreekAspasia herself was accused by various Athenian authorsattitudes about gender roles during Aspasia's time ,of causing one or another of Athens's wars because of per -and then complete a writing assignment based onsonal vendettas or perverse sexual desires . Pericles's deaththe evidence and details from this chapter .in 429 B . C.E . in the plague of Athens left Aspasia without a85