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Aspasia

Aspasia of Miletus (c. 470–c. 400 BCE) was a prominent intellectual in Periclean Athens, known for her mastery of rhetoric and for hosting a salon that gathered leading thinkers and politicians. No writings by her survive, but ancient sources credit her with influencing Pericles’ political oratory and with engaging in philosophical and rhetorical discussion, and later tradition names her as a teacher of Socrates. Her main historical significance lies in her role as a female intellectual and rhetorical practitioner in a society that largely excluded women from public intellectual

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Other Works by Aspasia

  • Factors Affecting Firm Competitiveness and Performance in the Modern Business World (2016)