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Definition of Hetaera
1. Noun. A mistress, especially a highly cultivated courtesan in ancient Greece. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Hetaera
1. a concubine [n -RAE or -RAS] : HETAERIC [adj] - See also: concubine
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hetaera
Literary usage of Hetaera
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Antimachus of Colophon and the Position of Women in Greek Poetry by Edward Felix Mendelssohn Benecke (1896)
"The typical hetaera-play of the Middle Comedy, however, is of an entirely ...
In this there is a definite plot, of which the hetaera is the heroine, ..."
2. A Digest of the Laws, Customs, Manners, and Institutions of the Ancient and by Thomas Roderick Dew (1853)
"maintain faithful guardians for our houses, the hetaera was meant to promote the
... The hetaera of Greece, therefore, must ever be regarded as a melancholy ..."
3. Woman: In All Ages and in All Countries by Mitchell Carroll, Alfred Brittain, Edward Bagby Pollard, Pierce Butler, John Robert Effinger, Hugo Paul Thieme, Hermann Schoenfeld, Bartlett Burleigh James, John Ruse Larus (1907)
"Plutarch expressly distinguishes from the hetaera a class known as "emancipated
women," whose preeminent virtue, however, was certainly not modesty. ..."
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