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Definition of Hetairas
1. hetaira [n] - See also: hetaira
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hetairas
Literary usage of Hetairas
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Sexual Question: A Scientific, Psychological, Hygenic and Sociological Study by Auguste Forel (1908)
"The neglected education of the Greek wives caused the intellectual accomplishments
of the hetairas to shine by contrast. The whole question regarding the ..."
2. Judicial Murder: The Case of Lieutenant Wark by E. R. Grain (1900)
"The attractive history of Phryne, one of the most celebrated hetairas of ancient
Greece, forms the basis of this drama, which was originally published in ..."
3. Wieland's Attitude Toward Woman and Her Cultural and Social Relations by Matthew Gruenberg Bach (1922)
"Men looked for their diversion outside of the house in the company of the hetairas,
who besides their external charms, possessed also an unusual amount of ..."
4. Woman and the New Race by Margaret Sanger (1920)
"unable to throw off the restrictions of the laws which kept them at home, the
great number of hetairas, or stranger women, were the glory of the "Golden Age ..."
5. Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Standard Work of Reference in Art, Literature (1907)
"... early Greek times, though afterwards perhaps from its abundant use in the
baths, and as a scented salve, it was especially appropriated by the hetairas. ..."
6. The Origin of Civilisation and the Primitive Condition of Man: Mental and by John Lubbock (1871)
"... it also tends to explain those curious cases in which hetairas were held in
greater estimation than those women who were, as we should consider properly ..."
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