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Aspasia

Aspasia of Miletus (470-410 BCE, approximately) is best known as the consort and close companion of the great Athenian statesman Pericles. She was a metic (a person not born in Athens) and, accordingly, was not allowed to marry an Athenian and had to pay a tax to live in Athens.

Her name derived from the word:ασπασιος (aspasios) meaning “welcome, embrace”

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