Athens, 470 BC Pericles was the leader of the Greek cities, opposed to Sparta. The ruler of Athens administered in an exemplary manner his city, which had fanatical friends and enemies.
Pericles was a model of a democratic leader, but he also had hi ...
Athens, 470 BC Pericles was the leader of the Greek cities, opposed to Sparta. The ruler of Athens administered in an exemplary manner his city, which had fanatical friends and enemies.
Pericles was a model of a democratic leader, but he also had his weaknesses. He did not escape the nature of the man and fell in love with a partner.
It was a woman who had come to Athens from the thriving city of Miletus, a woman known for her talents and favors. Many wealthy Athenian merchants who had visited Miletus talked about the impressive beauty and the heroic organization and claimed that she knew better than any woman of the time the game of love and that she was the ideal companion of the intellectuals.
Its adaptation to Athens was no easy task. Minds, habits, attitudes and jealousy required diplomacy and delicate manipulations - a field in which Aspasia was overwhelming, as it turned out.
What happened had influenced Pericles, the formerly "Olympian" man, and then the whole Athenian society.
Aspasia has been one of the most controversial figures since it has not been ascertained whether and to what extent it affected Pericles in making serious decisions in the field of politics.
Her life was fictional and the end of the tragic, while the question remains whether it was a partner or a woman with a liberal spirit, far ahead of her time.
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