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" Axiochus; for her celebrity has preserved her father's name. With uncommon beauty were joined in Aspasia still more uncommon talents ; and, with a mind the most cultivated, manners so decent, that, in her more advanced years, not only Socrates professed... "
The History of Greece - Page 5
by William Mitford - 1822
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The New Annual Register, Or General Repository of History ..., Volume 11

1791 - 624 pages
...converfation. Pericles became her paffionate admirer, and fhe attached herfelf to him while he lived ; according to Plutarch he divorced his wife, with whom he had lived on ill terms, to many her. We are informed on higher authority, that he was not fortunate in his family, his fons being...
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The History of Greece, Volume 3

William Mitford - 1814 - 444 pages
...was totally forbidden. Hence, at Pint. vit. the time of the invasion under Xerxes, more than Penc. one Grecian city is said to have been ingaged in the...lived on ill terms, to marry her. We are informed, on Men.on. higher authority, that he was not fortunate in his £ %* £ *• family, his sons being mentioned...
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Universal History Americanised; Or, An Historical View of the World, from ...

David Ramsay - 1819 - 356 pages
...that in her more advanced years, not only Socrates professed to have learned eloquence from her, but the ladies of Athens used to accompany their husbands...life: according to Plutarch, he divorced his wife to marry her. Policy united with natural inclination, to induce Pericles to patronize the arts, and...
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The History of Greece, Volume 3

William Mitford - 1835 - 366 pages
...Thargelia, a Milesian courtezan, who afterward became, as her title is expressed by historians, queen of Thessaly. Aspasia was also a Milesian, the daughter...lived on ill terms, to marry her. We are informed, on Plat. Menon. » higher authonty, that he was not fortunate in hi» pmts fan,;)^ his sons being mentioned...
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