Also known as Aspasia of Miletus
thumb|right|Marble portrait herm (sculpture)|herm identified by an inscription as Aspasia, possibly copied from her grave. Aspasia (after 428 BC) was a metic woman who lived in Classical Athens. Born in Miletus, she moved to Athens and began a relationship with the statesman Pericles. According to the traditional historical narrative, she worked as a courtesan, though modern scholars have questioned the factual basis for this claim, which derives from ancient comedy. Though Aspasia is one of the best-attested women from the Greco-Roman world, and the most important woman in the history of fift
Aspasia was a woman from Miletus who lived in Classical Athens and became known for her relationship with the influential statesman Pericles, making her one of the most documented women from the ancient Greco-Roman world. While ancient sources describe her as a courtesan, modern scholars question whether this claim is historically accurate, since it comes largely from ancient comedies rather than reliable sources.
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Aspasia is an independent musical project from Santiago de Chile by Milo Sepúlveda. It was born in 2006 with a proposal that mixes sounds coming mainly from punk rock and post-rock, seasoned with fragments of poems and speeches by figures linked to anti-capitalism and the anti-globalization movement. <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/ASPASIA">Read more on Last.fm</a>
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