. s, Asopiades to Aeacus, son of Zeus andAegina. Aspadana (A<riraSdva: Ispahan1?), a townof the district Paraetacene in Persis. Asparagium (Iscarpar), a town in the terri-tory of Dyrrhachium in Illyria (Caes. B. C. , 76). Aspasia (A<rjra<na). 1. The elder, of Mile-tus, daughter of Axiochus, the most celebratedof the Greek Hetaerae (see Diet, of Antiq. s. v.),came to reside at Athens. Here she was visitedby Athenians most distinguished for positionand culture, offering what may be compared toa salon for witty and even l
. s, Asopiades to Aeacus, son of Zeus andAegina. Aspadana (A<riraSdva: Ispahan1?), a townof the district Paraetacene in Persis. Asparagium (Iscarpar), a town in the terri-tory of Dyrrhachium in Illyria (Caes. B. C. , 76). Aspasia (A<rjra<na). 1. The elder, of Mile-tus, daughter of Axiochus, the most celebratedof the Greek Hetaerae (see Diet, of Antiq. s. v.),came to reside at Athens. Here she was visitedby Athenians most distinguished for positionand culture, offering what may be compared toa salon for witty and even learned is said to have been among thosefound there; but in especial she gained theaffections of Pericles, who separated from hiswife and took Aspasia to live with him, in asclose a union as could be formed with aforeigner. There was no doubt much exaggera-tion as to the political influence which sheexerted, and the stories of her inducing Periclesto make war on Samo3 for the sake of Miletus,and on Sparta because of Aspasias quarrel with. ACPACIAAspasia (Visconti). ASPII Megara (Plut. Pericl. 24; Aristoph. ), may be dismissed as lampoons. Theenemies of Pericles accused Aspasia of impiety(atresia), and it required all the personal influ-ence of Pericles, who defended her, and hismost earnest entreaties, to procure her the death of Pericles ( 429), Aspasia issaid to have attached herself to one Lysicles, adealer in cattle, and to have made him by herinstructions a first-rate orator. The sonof Pericles by Aspasiawas legitimated by aspecial decree of thepeople, and took hisfathers name. Someof the sayings of As-pasia are collectedin Mulierum , by Wolf,1739. The bust hereengraved was found a4Civitii Vecchia : thegenuineness of the in-scription is, however,now disputed.—2. Theyounger, a Phocaean,daughter of Hermoti-mus, was the favouriteconcubine of Cyrus the i1Younger, who calledher Aspasia after themistress of Pericles,
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