Aspasia de mileto biography for kids

  • Aspasia was a metic woman in Classical Athens.
  • Aspasia of Miletus (l.
  • According to legend, Aspasia of Miletus was a courtesan, the teacher of Socrates, and the political adviser of her lover Pericles.

    • •

    &#;El Maligno&#;: Talking to Julio Medem About Ma Ma and Melodrama

    By Steve Macfarlane

    That a sensationell of a film festival will leave its attendees biased in favor of lesser fare appears to be the reason thousands (if not by now hundreds of thousands) of festivals continue to exist. That said, no small part of the thrill for me in covering TIFF last year was the chance to see Julio Medem’s Ma Ma starring Penélope Cruz, premiering in conjunction with its release in the filmmaker’s native Spain. Walking to the theater inom had involuntary flashbacks of my first Medem, the moment inom happened upon a VHS of La Ardilla Roja (The Red Squirrel)in a Seattle public library, a decision no doubt abetted by the image of Emma Suarez in mom-jeans on its cover. From Squirrel on Medem&#;s style was signature at first blush, less so for its dutch angles and bizarre, irrigating dolly shots—although the filmmaker loves both—than for a sudsy, go-for-broke emotionality that allows him to exp

    •

    Aspasia

    5th-century BC partner of Athenian statesman Pericles

    For other uses, see Aspasia (disambiguation).

    Aspasia (;[2]Ancient Greek: ἈσπασίαGreek:[aspasíaː]; c.&#;&#;&#; after BC[a]) was a metic woman in Classical Athens. Born in Miletus, she moved to Athens and began a relationship with the statesman Pericles, with whom she had a son named Pericles the Younger. According to the traditional historical narrative, she worked as a courtesan and was tried for asebeia (impiety), though modern scholars have questioned the factual basis for either of these claims, which both derive from ancient comedy. Though Aspasia is one of the best-attested women from the Greco-Roman world, and the most important woman in the history of fifth-century Athens, almost nothing fryst vatten certain about her life.

    Aspasia was portrayed in Old Comedy as a prostitute and madam, and in ancient philosophy as a teacher and rhetorician. She has continued to be a subject of

  • aspasia de mileto biography for kids

    • •

    Glory and the Lightning

    October 17,
    The story of Pericles and his second wife Aspasia, this starts out in ancient Turkey, but quickly shifts to Athens. Written decades ago, the language is somewhat dated and at first a little off-putting. And while it begins with Aspasia, the main part of the story is about Pericles. It’s the story of how a relatively unknown mid-level Athenian bureaucrat became one of the most influential people in history and almost single-handedly dragged Athens into the modern age. Brilliant, ruthless, enigmatic, and probably more than a little mad, he was a mass of contradictions: he had no problem forcing democracy on an unwilling population; he extolled the rights of the individual yet had no problem ordering the murders of his enemies; he outlawed foreign marriage, then married his foreign lover; he had no use for philosophy, yet insisted Socrates be allowed to teach; he had no interest in other cultures, yet welcomed a delegation from the small unknown c