Aspasia

Also known as: the Wise · Family: Persian court · Role: former concubine of Cyrus · First appears: Pericles

Pericles

courtship with Pericles “himself took Aspasia, and loved her with wonderful affection; every day, both as he went out and as he came in from the marketplace, he saluted and kissed her.”
parent: Axiochus “That she was a Milesian by birth, the daughter of Axiochus, is a thing acknowledged.”
with Socrates (interaction) “Socrates himself would sometimes go to visit her”
with Lysicles (interaction) “Lysicles, a sheep-dealer, a man of low birth and character, by keeping Aspasia company after Pericles's death, came to be a chief man in Athens.”
with Hermippus (interaction) “Aspasia was indicted of impiety, upon the complaint of Hermippus the comedian”

courtship with Cyrus “After which time he began to regard her, and loved her above all of her sex, and called her the Wise.”
courtship with Darius (son) “Darius therefore requested Aspasia, in former time the most prized of the concubines of Cyrus, and now belonging to the king.”
admirer: Cyrus “After which time he began to regard her, and loved her above all of her sex, and called her the Wise.”

Extracted from the original text of Plutarch's Lives. Made with Rho MD.