The hetairae were an alterative from it, and, at the same time, a protest against existing feminine conditions.
While the wife sat contemptuous in the severe gynaeceum, the hetairae mingled with men, charming them always, marrying them occasionally, yet only when their own equality and independence was recognized and conserved.
It was chiefly there and at Corinth that the hetairae were trained.
The golden waters of the lake lapped higher than the marble steps of the villas down which the brilliant hetairae descended, holding the lappets of their veils, to take their seats on the cushions of their barges.
And besides, it can not be questioned, in view of the Greek memoirs we possess, that many of the leading hetairae were women of remarkable mind, as well as unusual attractions.
What wonder that the Hetairaeshould have filled so prominent a part in Greek society!
Others, again, were old hetairae whose charms had faded, and who sought a scanty subsistence where they were not known, and shrank from encountering the eye of a lover where the friendly shade of night would not hide the ravages of time.
No women but hetairae drove through the streets with uncovered face and gorgeous apparel.
But the fame of thesehetairae is eclipsed by that of the only two kept women who can rank with Aspasia--Lais and Phryne.
Tradition reported several occasions on which hetairae had rendered signal service to the state.
The Hetairae were by far the most important class of women in Greece.
Rewarded for his fidelity by the governorship of Babylon, and still farther enriched by the spoils of that lucrative office, Harpalus sent to Athens for the most skillful and lovely hetairae of the day.
The influence of the Hetairae was most harmful to social morality.
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