Professor Armand D’Angour
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Ah, oak to roll.
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A coda.
Aspagia's a very well known character from fifth century BC Athens.
So a lot of people who've studied that period will have come across her as the partner or consort or mistress of the most important man in Athens in the fifth century BC, who was Pericles.
So I I mentioned the uncertainty about her status because uh she was not an Athenian woman and in those days non Athenians were considered to be outsiders and um there was a particular law which Pericles himself had passed that Athenian men should uh
if if they were to marry an outsider, a non Athenian woman, then uh they wouldn't have legitimate sons.
That has been misinterpreted to uh say that they were not married.
I think they were.
Let's call her Pericles' wife.
That's who Asphasia was.
And she was very influential because Pericles was the leading citizen of Athens for about thirty years and
She was and was married to Aspasia for about fifteen of those years.
And during that period Pericles went to war
In particular, he went to war with Sparta and its allies, the Peloponnesian War, which was a very long twenty plus year war.
And she was said to have instigated that war, and she was also said to have instigated a previous battle on the island of Samos.
So she was an influential woman, and she was an intellectual, because we hear of her in writings by Plato and Xenophon as someone who was a teacher and who held a salon.
for elite Athenians talking about love and marriage.
Interesting character that has not been uh particularly well received because she was the butt of a lot of comic slander in her in the period.
Because she was such an influential woman, because she they thought she was holding the levers of government and foreign policy.
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