Aspasia
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Oct 31, 2026
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Amor omnibus idem, says Virgil.
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And Carabine went with Caraban into a bar of Saint-Cloud as Aspasia embarked with Pericles upon the fleet at Samos.
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One last word.
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Do you know what Aspasia was, ladies? Although she lived at an epoch where women had as yet no soul, she was a soul, a soul of rosy and purple hue, more ardent-hued than fire, fresher than the dawn.
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Aspasia was a creature in whom two extremes of womanhood met.
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She was a goddess prostitute.
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Socrates plus Menelisquo.
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Aspasia was created in case a mistress should be needed for Prometheus.
speaker_14NARRATOR
Amor omnibus idem, says Virgil.
speaker_14NARRATOR
And Carabine mounts with Caraban and Jabot of Saint-Cloud as Aspasia embarked with Pericles upon the fleet at Samos." One last word.
speaker_14NARRATOR
Do you know what Aspasia was, ladies? Although she lived at an epoch where women had, as yet, no soul, she was a soul, a soul of rosy and purple hue, more ardent-hued than fire, fresher than the dawn.
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Aspasia was a creature in whom two extremes of womanhood met.
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She was a goddess prostitute, Socrates plus Meneliscu.
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Aspasia was created in case a mistress should be needed for Prometheus.
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Tholomy, once started, would have found some difficulty in stopping had not a horse fallen down upon the quay just at that moment.
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The shock caused the cart and the orator to come to a dead halt.
Joel PortingaNARRATOR
Amor omnibus idem, says Virgil.
Joel PortingaNARRATOR
And Carabine mounts with Caraban into a bar of Saint-Cloud, as Aspasia embarked with Pericles upon the fleet at Samos.
Joel PortingaNARRATOR
One last word.
Joel PortingaNARRATOR
Do you know what Aspasia was, ladies? Although she lived at an epoch where women had, as yet, no soul, she was a soul, a soul of rosy and purple hue, more ardent-hued than fire, fresher than the dawn.
Joel PortingaNARRATOR
Aspasia was a creature in whom two extremes of womanhood met.
Joel PortingaNARRATOR
She was a goddess prostitute.
Joel PortingaNARRATOR
Socrates plus Menelisco.
Joel PortingaNARRATOR
Aspasia was created in case a mistress should be needed for Prometheus." Toulomie, once started, would have found some difficulty in stopping had not a horse fallen down upon the quay just at that moment.
Bruce KachokNARRATOR
Thus spoke the orator, matchless, The gracious and mighty Olympian.
Bruce KachokNARRATOR
Joyously then he abandoned His wreath for the smiles of Aspasia.
Bruce KachokNARRATOR
End of poem.
Bruce KachokNARRATOR
This recording is in the public domain.
speaker_0NARRATOR
After this, when peace had been made for thirty years between the Athenians and the Lacedaemonians, he got a decree passed for his expedition to Samos, alleging against its people that, though they were ordered to break off their war against the Miletians, they were not complying.
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Now since it is thought that he proceeded thus against the Samians, to gratify Aspasia, this may be a fitting place to raise the query what great art or power this woman had, that she managed as she pleased the foremost men of the state, and afforded the philosophers occasion to discuss her in exalted terms and at great length.
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that she was a Milesian by birth, daughter of one Axiochus, is generally agreed, and they say that it was in emulation of Thargelia, an Ionian woman of ancient times, that she made her onslaughts upon the most influential men.
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This Thargelia came to be a great beauty, and was endowed with grace of manners as well as clever wits.
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Inasmuch as she lived on terms of intimacy with numberless Greeks, and attached all her consorts to the king of Persia, she stealthily sowed the seeds of Persian sympathy in the cities of Greece by means of these lovers of hers, who were men of the greatest power and influence.
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And so Aspasia, as some say, was held in high favor by Pericles because of her rare political wisdom.
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Socrates sometimes came to see her with his disciples, and his intimate friends brought their wives to her to hear her discourse, although she presided over a business that was anything but honest or even reputable, since she kept a house of young courtesans.
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And Ascenes says that Lysiscles, the sheep-dealer, a man of low birth and nature, came to be the first man at Athens, by having with Aspasia after the death of Pericles.
Ted LinhartNARRATOR
In the very first year of our century, the year 1801, there appeared in Paris a book by Sylvain Marechal entitled Shall Woman Learn the Alphabet? The book proposes a law prohibiting the alphabet to women and quotes authorities weighty and various to prove that the woman who knows the alphabet has already lost part of her womanliness.
Ted LinhartNARRATOR
The author declares that women can use the alphabet only as Molière predicted they would in spelling out the verb amo, that they have no occasion to peruse Ovid's Ars Amoris since that is already the ground and limit of their intuitive furnishing, that Madame Guillon would have been far more adorable had she remained a beautiful ignoramus as nature made her, that Ruth, Naomi, the Spartan woman, the Amazons, Penelope, Andromache, Lucretia, Joan of Arc, Petrarch's Laura, the daughters of Charlemagne could not spell their names, while Sappho, Aspasia, Madame de Maintenon, and Madame de Stael could read altogether too well for their good.
Ted LinhartNARRATOR
Finally, that if women were once permitted to read Sophocles and work with logarithms or to nibble at any side of the apple of knowledge, there would be an end forever to their sewing on buttons and embroidering slippers.
Ted LinhartNARRATOR
Please remember this book was published at the beginning of the 19th century.
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Ted LinhartNARRATOR
Now you will argue, perhaps, and rightly, that higher education for women is not a modern idea, and that, if that is the means of setting free and invigorating the long-desired feminine force in the world, it has already had a trial and should, in the past, have produced some of these glowing effects.
Ted LinhartNARRATOR
Sappho, the bright, sweet singer of Lesbos, the violet-crowned, pure, sweetly smiling Sappho, as Alcaeus calls her, chanted her lyrics and poured forth her soul nearly six centuries before Christ in notes as full and free, as passionate and eloquent as did ever Archelaus or Anachron.
Ted LinhartNARRATOR
Aspasia, that earliest queen of the drawing room, a century later ministered to the intellectual entertainment of Socrates and the leading wits and philosophers of her time.
Ted LinhartNARRATOR
Indeed, to her is attributed, by the best critics, the authorship of one of the most noted speeches ever delivered by Pericles.