hetairai

It never failed to amaze her that the scholars about her could discuss the hetairai of the Greeks, Tristan and Isolde, Abelard and Heloise, and the loves of the girls on the Isle of Lesbos, and then blush with shame when one even mentioned the existence of certain establishments not more than a dozen blocks from the University.

red dust Ryn Cricket 2010

Also, the questioning is done in a symposium with lots of super strong wine with pulpy grape lees drunk out of large handled bowls, and many hetairai really high class literary and musical prostitutes present.

The Volokh Conspiracy » The Really Traditional Socratic Method 2009

Thales: and many hetairai really high class literary and musical prostitutes present.

The Volokh Conspiracy » The Really Traditional Socratic Method 2009

The Roman matron had learned how to be a mother, the lesson of love was an unopened book; and, when the foreign hetairai poured into the city, and the struggle for supremacy began, she soon became aware of the disadvantage under which she contended.

Satyricon 2007

We find a parallel in the old days in Shanghai, before the depredations of the American hetairai had aroused the hostility of the American judge, in 1907-8.

Satyricon 2007

Very different from the social position of chaste women was that of the hetairai.

Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life

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.

Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life

We find a parallel in the old days in Shanghai, before the depredations of the American hetairai had aroused the hostility of the American judge, in 1907-8.

The Satyricon — Complete 20-66 Petronius Arbiter

In the graces of society the hetairai were naturally superior to respectable women, owing to their free intercourse with men.

Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life

For the hetairai did not shun the light of day, and were not restrained by the law.

Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life