Aspasia
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
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...adviser of Pericles after he divorced (445 b.c.) his wife. She is the chief figure in Aspasia, a dialogue by Aeschines the Socratic, in which she criticizes the training of women. She also appears in the Menexnus, probably written by Plato, and in the...