Aristippus attached himself to those Hetaerae who pleased him; declaring that the charm of their society was in no way lessened by the knowledge that others enjoyed it also, and that he could claim no exclusive privilege.
That the society of these fascinating Hetaerae was dangerous, and exhaustive to the purses of those who sought it, may be seen from the expensive manner of life of Theodote, described in Xenophon, Mem.
The hetaeraefrom Ionia and Aetolia were particularly conspicuous for their intelligence and culture.
Many of the hetaerae were not only the models but also the inspirers of the most famous painters and sculptors of antiquity.
For information respecting the hetaerae the reader is referred to the Letters of Alciphron, to Lucian's Dialogues on courtesans, and more particularly to the Deipnosophists of Athenaeus, Chap.
Their objects are women who also are standing outside of official society, hetaerae that are either foreigners or liberated slaves: in Athens since the beginning of its decline, in Rome at the time of the emperors.
Spartan women and the Athenian hetaerae were the only Greek women of whom the ancients speak respectfully and whose remarks they considered worthy of notice.
The daughters or widows of citizens constituted but the smaller number of hetaerae of this class.
But if the careers of the learned hetaerae were influential, they did not equal in brilliancy and power those of the more celebrated domestic hetaerae.
The hetaerae of the Academy claimed that they were merely putting into practice Plato's doctrine of the community of women.
Though the Epicurean hetaerae have brought reproach upon the sect, yet there were honorable women of irreproachable reputation who became members of the school.
These philosopher-hetaerae were indisputably the most interesting phenomenon in the social life of ancient times, to which the later Greek world and modern times afford no adequate parallel.
Plutarch expressly distinguishes from the hetaerae a class known as "emancipated women," whose preeminent virtue, however, was certainly not modesty.
Some hetaerae inspired such regard that they were honored with public monuments.
From Sparta, in its best days, hetaerae were rigidly excluded.
The hetaerae who followed in the wake of the Athenian army led by Pericles to Samos built a temple to Aphrodite from the tithes of their gains.
The hetaerae of the various schools surpassed the men in their imitation of the jargon and the manners of the leading lights of their systems.
Among these hetaerae we see the high life of the day on a most brilliant scale.
He reflected with himself; "hetaerae are prone to deceive, Brahmans are like my father and uncles, and merchants are greedy of wealth; in whose house shall I dwell?
So you see, the hearts of hetaerae are fathomless and hard to understand.
So I will entrust my son to some kuttini, in order that he may learn the tricks of the hetaerae and not be deceived by them.
What wise man looks for love in hetaeraeor for oil in sand?
Thus, king, even hetaerae are occasionally of noble character and as faithful to kings as their own wives, much more then matrons of high birth.
The richest hetaerae consulted her about their desires and revenges, and she gave them the benefit of her knowledge.
Actaeon the Athenian, he for whom the richest hetaerae of the beautiful city used to dispute in the Cerameicus, protected and adored by a strumpet of the port!
Then she fled toward the city, eager for liberty and joy, wishing to become one of those Athenian hetaerae whose luxury and beauty she had admired from afar.
I explained to her about our sculptors, before whom the most famous hetaerae contended for the honor of disrobing; and the certainty that her mistress, Sonnica, had done the same in Athens was the only thing that decided her.
Her slenderness, with lines erect and harmonious, reminded him of the elegance of the Tanagra figurines on the tables of the hetaerae of Athens; of the imperious virility of the canephorae painted in black around Greek vases.
They were dressed in transparent cloth of screaming colors and subtle weave, disclosing the body, like the tunics worn by the hetaerae at banquets.
The richest hetaerae sang his verses at banquets to the music of the lyre, and virtuous dames murmured them in the solitude of the gynaeceum, flushing with emotion.
She called him "little brother," and this word, which the hetaerae used with young lovers, gradually took on her lips a warmth of sincere affection.
But Aspasia cannot be taken as a type of the Hetaerae of Greece.
Personal affection, as we have seen, was not the basis of married life; and relations withHetaerae appear to have been, in this respect, no finer or higher than similar relations in our own times.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "hetaerae" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
