person
Aspasia
also: Asasia
Aspasia of Miletus (c. 470–400 BC), companion of Pericles and celebrated intellectual; she and Sappho represent for Madách the paradox of Athenian female achievement — women who gained standing only outside the respectable domestic sphere.
Reading notes
- On Women and Their Vocation §1 Aspasias and the Sapphos
Aspasia of Miletus (c. 470–400 BC), companion of Pericles and celebrated intellectual; Sappho of Lesbos (c. 630–570 BC), the lyric poet. Madách groups them as women who achieved fame only by stepping outside conventional female roles.