Note 285 — Chapter VII · ToC

We do not know the circumstances which induced Aspasia to come to Athens. Plutarch suggests that she was led to do so by the example of Thargalia. For full accounts of the career of Aspasia see Gomperz, Greek Thinkers, Vol. III.; Ivo Bruns, Frauenemancipation in Athen; the fine monograph, Aspasie de Milet, by Becq Fouquières; Donaldson's Woman, pp. 60-67; also Ellis, Psychology of Sex, Vol. VI. p. 308.