Note 10 — Chapter I
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Donaldson, op. cit., pp. 61 and 62.
Adolph Schmidt, one of the late biographers of Aspasia, accepts these statements as true and credits to Aspasia the making of both Pericles and Socrates. His views are also shared by other modern writers who have made a special study of the subject.
According to some writers an indirect allusion to Aspasia's intellectual superiority is found in the Medea of Euripedes in the following verses of the women's chorus:
"In subtle questions I full many a time Have heretofore engaged, and this great point Debated, whether woman should extend Her search into abstruse and hidden truths. But we too have a Muse, who with our sex Associates to expound the mystic lore Of wisdom, though she dwell not with us all."