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Definition of Hetaira
1. hetaera [n -RAI or -RAS] - See also: hetaera
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hetaira
Literary usage of Hetaira
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The History of Prostitution: Its Extent, Causes and Effects Throughout the World by William W. Sanger (1895)
"Venus Callipyge.—Lesbian Love.— Lamia.—hetaira;.—Social Standing. ... Other hetaira;.
—Biographers of Prostitutes.—Philtres. THE Greek mythology supposes ..."
2. Women in the Athenian Agora by Susan I. Rotroff, Robert Lamberton (2006)
"Aspasia, a hetaira who lived for over a decade with the powerful 5th-century
politician Perikles, is reputed to have been proficient in the (normally manly) ..."
3. Judicial Murder: The Case of Lieutenant Wark by E. R. Grain (1900)
"The social position of the Greek hetaira at the time of Pericles and Alexander
the Great cannot be judged or measured by the position of the courtesan in ..."
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