With regard to the second, it is sufficient for the present purpose to remember that free Athenian women were comparatively uneducated and uninteresting, and that the hetairai had proverbially bad manners.
The Hetairai of Corinth presented every detail of feminine perfection freely to the gaze.
Another of theHetairai scarcely less famous than Aspasia was the celebrated Athenian courtesan, Phryne.
As the sculptors did not hesitate to carve the images of the Hetairai in marble and give them the names of the goddesses of Olympus, so the poets, orators, and historians did not fail to immortalize them in their poems, orations, and annals.
The most renowned of the Hetairaiwas Aspasia, the mistress of Pericles.
Now, thehetairai of Naucratis are wont somehow to be exceedingly fair, beyond all women whom we know.
Yesterday, as I was going down to the market-place of Naucratis, I met Nicarete, who of all the hetairai in this place is the most beautiful.
The idea of the family was held up by both law and custom, and although concubinage and the intercourse with hetairai was suffered, nay favored, by the state, still such impure elements never intruded on domestic relations.
For thehetairai did not shun the light of day, and were not restrained by the law.
In the graces of society the hetairai were naturally superior to respectable women, owing to their free intercourse with men.
But the hetairai appear to have understood the advantages of assumed disdain or indifference in making a coveted man more eager in his wooing.
The poet declares expressly that a rich man will not need his Ars Amandi, but that it is written for the poor, who may be able to overcome the greed of the hetairai by tickling their vanity.
That the Alexandrian period, far from marking the advent of purity and refinement in literature and life, really represents the climax of degradation, is made most obvious when we regard the role which the hetairai played in social life.
Propertius not only writes with the hetairai in his mind, but, like his Alexandrian models, he appears as one who is forever writing love-poems without ever being really in love.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "hetairai" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
