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Ring Aspasia
Aspasia (c. 470 –c. 400 BC) was the influential lover and partner of Athenian statesman Pericles in Classical-era Athens. The couple had a son, Pericles the Younger, but the full details of the couple's marital status are unknown.
According to Plutarch, her house became an intellectual center in Athens, attracting the most prominent writers and thinkers, including the philosopher Socrates. She was a metic and although she spent most of her adult life in Greece, few details of her life are fully known.
Several scholars have credited ancient depictions of Aspasia as a brothel keeper and a prostitute, though this has been disputed. Aspasia is mentioned in the writings of Plato, Aristophanes, Xenophon and others. Aspasia's role in history provides crucial insight to the understanding of the women of ancient Greece.
Source: Wikipedia.
