hetaira

Definitions

Examples

• In Greece and Rome there was, perhaps you know, a certain class of females called Hetaira, also a class of males called parasites.

• Everyone recognized the beautiful hetaira as Aphrodite, and she was hailed, as with one voice, the Queen of the World.

• These thoughts, he says, have been suggested to him by the life of the hetaira Thais whose body and soul are ever at variance.

• The nun generally was emancipated from man as thoroughly as the hetaira had been from marriage.

• The Greek ideal of woman which the hetaira exemplified was beauty.