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	Hetaira
		An hetaira (literally a 'companion') was a call-girl, who was paid to accompany men to social gatherings like a symposium.
		She was born in Miletus, an important member of the Athenian Empire on the coast of Ionia.
		She came to Athens and served as an hetaira (literally a 'companion'), a call-girl, who was paid to accompany men to social gatherings like a symposium.
	depthome.brooklyn.cuny.edu /classics/dunkle/athnlife/hetaira.htm (310 words)

	Classics Technology Center
		hetaira was very well educated in order that she may converse on "masculine" subjects with her clients in addition to performing sexual favors.
		hetaira was the highest class, as well as the most expensive prostitute available in Greece, and therefore, could probably afford to be choosy in her clients.
		hetaira wears a long garment that is opaque on the top, thereby allowing the owner of the cup to catch a glimpse of her right breast.
	ablemedia.com /ctcweb/consortium/clossey7.html (324 words)

	Abstracts (Site not responding. Last check: )
		In this paper, I examine the construction and use of a stereotype of the hetaira in judicial oratory, and argue that the representation of the hetaira is part of an orator's rhetorical strategy against an opponent.
		Understanding the rhetorical function of the hetaira in oratory explains the attitude towards the hetaira: speakers use a negative stereotype of the hetaira as part of their strategy to influence the jurors and win lawsuits.
		Examination of the orator's use of a negative stereotype for the hetaira and his use of antithesis reveals a double standard at Athens: Athenians approve of female prostitution, but use an image of the prostitute and sexuality associated with the prostitute to judge and abuse various types of women.
	classics.lss.wisc.edu /prostitution/glazebrook.html (810 words)

	Hetaira (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The iconography of the symposium cup sometimes is ambiguous and not always consistent.
		Floral garlands, which often were worn, are another indication, as is the short hair of slaves, and, of course, nudity and sexual depictions.
		The flute-girl, who ranked below the hetaira in status, usually can be recognized by her flute and its case, although hetairai also were musicians and dancers.
	penelope.uchicago.edu /~grout/encyclopaedia_romana/greece/hetairai/hetaira.html (122 words)

	Indymedia Barcelona: Putas y mundial de Alemania [Comunicado de Hetaira] (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Desde el colectivo Hetaira nos preocupan los discursos que califican la prostitución como violencia hacia las mujeres, también cuando se trata de relaciones consentidas entre personas adultas.
		Ante la situación que se está creando desde Hetaira deseamos aclarar que:
		Estamos asistiendo a una campaña mediática con un alto nivel de sensacionalismo en donde se manejan datos falsos (como la cifra de 40.000 mujeres forzadas a ejercer a prostitución) que han sido reiteradamente negados por parte de las autoridades alemanas.
	barcelona.indymedia.org /newswire/display/262017/index.php (732 words)

	Trabajadores del sexo: Carolina Hernández: Exigimos derechos laborales - La Insignia
		HETAIRA está muy agradecida porque la voz de las mujeres se empiece a escuchar, de las mujeres prostitutas que trabajamos en la calle.
		Cuando llegué a HETAIRA tenía dudas, ya había sido engañada y burlada por una asociación.
		Siempre desde HETAIRA exigimos un lugar donde nosotras podamos trabajar tranquilas.
	www.lainsignia.org /2006/enero/cul_030.htm (2112 words)

	The Landsraad (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Jessica's Hetaira role was emphasized by the fact that Duke Leto made her his Lady concubine but never his Lady wife; few societal sanctions supported (or confined) her Archetypal compassionate vitality.
		More significantly, she instilled the need to be Hetaira into all her descendants: into Paul Atreides, who welcomed Chani as his "companion;" into Leto II and Ghaninia, twin Hetairae to each other; and most notably and tragically into Alia, whose Hetaira nature betrayed her to the Baron Harkonnen's seductive intrapersonal companionship.
		Leto 11 was comfortable with the Hetaira, Amazon, Medium, and Mother within himself, but was sure that the Terrible Mother governed all natural events; he sacrificed his subjective humanity to buy time from the objective monster Mother Nature he imagined.
	groups.msn.com /TheLandsraad/ladyjessica.msnw (1680 words)

	A Modern Madam - Part 1 (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Yet, here she was, a hetaira, and she didn't need protection nor to feel the restriction of being escorted if she went outside of her house.
		A hetaira was an educated courtesan, the nearest thing to an emancipated women in Ancient Greece.
		Aspasia herself had been better educated than most hetairai (a group of hetaira), but she hadn't been born in Athens where hetairai weren't as well-educated as hetairai elsewhere.
	www.suite101.com /article.cfm/ancient_greece/37590/1 (418 words)

	Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2004.06.39
		While the egalitarian ethos of democratic culture included the idea that men had equal opportunity for sexual gratification, including access to prostitutes, hetairai could seem anti-democratic because a man maintaining a hetaira in his house is not sufficiently committed to a citizen marriage and to reproducing the democratic population.
		Demeas, by housing a hetaira who was going to bear his child, risks legal and civic sanction for producing a bastard child.
		Moschion's showdown in the last act of the play, where he acknowledges his allegiance to his fiancée Plangon and stands up to Demeas, "suggests that a woman's subordination to the legal and social structure might be offset by a man's emotional and sexual dependence on her" (170).
	ccat.sas.upenn.edu /bmcr/2004/2004-06-39.html (3169 words)

	Amazon.com: hetaira (Site not responding. Last check: )
		of women: the mother, the hetaira, the amazon, and the medium...
		PERICLES OF ATHENS as a hetaira, a kind of high-class courtesan...
		a leading aristocrat and a hetaira, was far from conventional and...
	www.amazon.com /s?ie=UTF8&keywords=hetaira&tag=lexico&index=blended&link_code=qs&page=1 (917 words)

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		Hired for the night, or perhaps owned as slaves of the host or guests, the hetairai might dance or provide flute music, but they were also obliged to give sexual favors to the guests, all of whom would be men.
		From the hetaira's viewpoint, the best she could hope for was to win a rich man's heart, so that he would purchase her freedom (if she were a slave) and set her up as his wife or mistress.
		At Athens, where a hetaira could not legally marry a citizen, she might at least become a common-law wife, or pallake.
	www.fofweb.com /Onfiles/Ancient/AncientDetail.asp?iPin=GRE0429 (725 words)

	Hetaira.org
		Hetaira es una palabra bonita que sirve para dirigirse a personas igualmente bonitas.
		Las hetairas eran las antiguas prostitutas de la Grecia clásica, mujeres con acceso a la cultura y que eran queridas y consideradas socialmente.
		Si deseas hacerte socia de Hetaira o bien colaborar desinteresadamente con nosotras no esperes más y llámanos o visítanos.
	www.colectivohetaira.org (455 words)

	Henry: Every Man's Right: Brothels in Early Greece?
		Recent scholarship has advanced our understanding of how the Hellenic hetaira ("courtesan") emerged in archaic symposium culture and came to be fetishized in Roman imperial literature.
		In this paper I consider evidence for the emergence of the porne (purchased foreign woman), the substrate from which the hetaira emerged in the preclassical period.
		Her emergence is placed in context with the trafficking in females seen in Homer, with prostitutional scenarios in preclassical texts, and with the ideology of the polis in Athens and elsewhere.
	www.camws.org /meeting/2006/abstracts/henry.html (431 words)

	Wine Cup with a Sexual Encounter (Getty Museum)
		The Greek orator Demosthenes summed up a symposion as "revelry, sex, and drinking." An integral part of Athenian aristocratic society, a symposion was a social gathering at which men ate, drank, played party games, were entertained with music and dance, and had sex with female prostitutes, mistresses, or male youths.
		This red-figure cup explicitly depicts a sexual encounter between a young man and a woman who is probably a hetaira, or prostitute.
		Such erotic scenes frequently decorated vases like this drinking cup, designed for use at a symposion and in keeping with the tone of the evening.
	www.getty.edu /art/gettyguide/artObjectDetails?artobj=14167 (202 words)

	bloch (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Focusing on Hellenistic epigrams and second sophistic literature, it elucidates the types of movement associated with the Greek hetaira.
		It then examines a quite different account of the female body, that of the Hippocratic corpus, to show how movement, as a cultural construct, delineates the respectable woman from the prostitute.
		But the violent, suggestive movements of professional dancers and courtesans marked them out as bodies for pleasure, not reproduction.
	www.apaclassics.org /AnnualMeeting/01mtg/abstracts/mcclure.html (438 words)

	The Greeks - Aspasia (Site not responding. Last check: )
		As the companion of Athens' leading politician, Aspasia quickly became the target of much malicious gossip, and she was soon accused of being a hetaira: a high-class courtesan, rather like a Japanese Geisha girl.
		These women would entertain wealthy men during their symposia, or dinner parties, but were not considered suitable as wives or companions.
		Whether Aspasia had actually been a hetaira is unclear.
	www.pbs.org /empires/thegreeks/characters/aspasia_p3.html (208 words)

	Socrates and Theodote: Memorabilia 3
		Neither Plato nor Xenophon ever explicitly compares Socrates to an hetaira, but both make free use of erotic language to describe Socrates, and speak in positive terms of the most famous hetaira of them all, Aspasia (Plato, Menexenus; Xenophon, Mem.
		In our passage Socrates charmingly strips Theodote of the various conceits that maintain her status as an hetaira rather than a porne, a common prostitute (cf.
		Unlike Theodote, however, Socrates teaches his friends how to attract friends of their own: this is one important respect in which he is her superior.
	www.apaclassics.org /AnnualMeeting/03mtg/abstracts/Johnson.html (719 words)

	Aspasia
		Although not a common prostitute, she was what the Greeks called a "hetaira," or companion.
		They were welcome at gatherings where Greek men wanted the company of charming females who were not (Gods forbid) their wives.
		Aspasia got out of the hetaira business as soon as the opportunity arose, and soon settled down in her own salon, famed for attracting the best of Athens' intellectuals.
	www.public.asu.edu /~aoacc/aspasia.html (483 words)

	The Harvard Crimson :: News :: Adrienne Rich: 'Some Kind of Hetaira'
		When I look back, though, I remember that I could feel that I wasn't really a part of the whole literary and intellectual 'scene' at Harvard, because I was a woman.
		Women couldn't be on the Advocate then, but I was invited to their parties--and felt like some kind of hetaira in the midst of a bunch of condescending men.
		I always sensed that I was an outsider in a man's literary world.
	www.thecrimson.com /article.aspx?ref=253911 (2386 words)

	Humanities Research Institute Associates: Allison Glazebrook
		I have concentrated on how male speakers construct and manipulate the image of the prostitute for their own ends.
		In part, my work is a reaction to scholarship that idealizes the ancient hetaira (sexual companion, regularly translated as courtesan), and attempts to look at how prostitution affected the lives of women across ancient Athenian society.
		At present, I am researching representations of women more generally in a variety of genres in an attempt to provide a larger context for the image of prostitutes in judicial oratory and to show how boundaries between various categories of women are regularly manipulated.
	www.brocku.ca /hri/associates/glazebrook.html (421 words)

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	friendfinder.com /p/member.cgi?mid=7884216_25727 (236 words)

	studywk14
		Neaira is called a hetaira, which means "female companion." This was a prostitute who was hired not only for sex but for conversation with males at symposia and other drinking gatherings.
		(This is why Apollodoros notes her beauty and training in section 18, though she is presented as starting out as a brothel slave and only later moved up the career ladder to a high-class hetaira.)
		Is the root problem that Neaira is a hetaira masquerading as an Athenian citizen woman, or that she is a foreigner?
	ccwf.cc.utexas.edu /~kallet/greece/studywk14.htm (623 words)

	El colectivo de defensa de los derechos de la prostitutas Hetaira será el primer invitado a las jornadas "Mujer y ...
		El colectivo de defensa de los derechos de la prostitutas Hetaira será el primer invitado a las jornadas "Mujer y Lucha" de Aldea Moret
		Una representante de Hetaira recogió el premio a mejor canción (“Calle” de Manu Chao para “Princesas”) en la gala de los Goya del domingo pasado.
		Para esta primera charla los organizadores han invitado a las mujeres de HETAIRA, colectivo que lucha por la defensa de la dignidad de las trabajadoras del sexo.
	www.lahaine.org /index.php?blog=4&p=12319 (214 words)

	Pictures of Women on Greek Vases (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Vomiting Youth and a Hetaira (Courtesan) Würzburg L 479
		Nude Hetaira, Labelled Palaisto St. Petersburg 644 center figure
		Nude Hetaira (headcovering—sakkos) St. Petersburg 644 far left figure
	www.bible.ovc.edu /terry/1cor/vases.htm (320 words)

	15 Women, 15 Centuries, a Women's History Month 1998 celebration
		Her skills in rhetoric were so well respected that her academy for women became a popular meeting place for male philosophers including Plato, Socrates, Anaxoagoras, Sophcles, Phidias, and Pericles.
		Working in Athens as a hetaira before moving to Miletus and becoming the mistress of Pericles, Aspasia's trade freed her from the social restraints of "respectable" married women and allowed her to engage in a public life.
		Unusual for the time, her match with Pericles was a love match.
	www.buschinc.com /~sunshine/15women.html (3835 words)

	hetaerae - Definitions from Dictionary.com
		Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2006.
		he·tae·rae (-tîr'ē) or he·tae·ras also he·tai·rai (-tīr'ī') or he·tai·ras
		An ancient Greek courtesan or concubine, especially one of a special class of cultivated female companions.
	dictionary.reference.com /search?q=hetaerae (116 words)

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