"Hetaerism" redirects here. For the concept in anthropology, see Johann Jakob Bachofen.
Not to be confused with Hetaireia.
Greek hetaira and her client, approx. 430 BC. The fact that she is on the couch with him is telling, as wives were not allowed into the symposium.
A hetaira, /hɪˈtaɪrə/ (pl.: hetairai, /hɪˈtaɪraɪ/), also hetaera, /hɪˈtɪrə/ (pl.: hetaerae, /hɪˈtɪriː/) (Ancient Greek: ἑταίρα, 'companion'; pl.: ἑταῖραι; Latin: hetaera; pl.: hetaerae), was a type of courtesan or prostitute in ancient Greece, who served as an artist, entertainer and conversationalist in addition to providing sexual service. Custom excluded the wives and daughters of Athenian citizens from the symposium, but this prohibition did not extend to hetairai, who were often foreign born and could be highly educated. Other female entertainers made appearances in the otherwise male domain, but hetairai joined the male guests in their sexual joking, sometimes evidencing a wide knowledge of literature in their contributions.
dancer,singer Lais of Corinth (5th century BCE), hetaira-courtesan Lais of Hyccara (killed 340 BCE), hetaira-courtesan Marion Delorme (c. 1613–1650): lover...
Gnathaena (Ancient Greek: Γνάθαινα) was an Athenian hetaira (plural: hetairai), a class of ancient Greek prostitutes who were companions to wealthy men...
thousand hetairas, whom both men and women had given to the goddess. Many people visited the town on account of them, and thus these hetairas contributed...
geisha", which dealt with women working in the sex industry, from the hetairas of ancient Greece and Japanese geishas to contemporary prostitution. In...
Φρύνη, romanized: Phrū́nē, c. 371 BC – after 316 BC) was an ancient Greek hetaira (courtesan). From Thespiae in Boeotia, she was active in Athens, where...
artist Jean-Léon Gérôme. The subject matter is Phryne, an ancient Greek hetaira (courtesan) who was put on trial for impiety. Phryne was acquitted after...
to Roman sources, Parthian kings had harems full of female slaves and hetairas secluded from contact with men, and royal women were not allowed to participate...
Nikidion ("Little Victory") (floruit circa 300 BCE) was a hetaira (courtesan) who was a female student of Epicurus. She served as a character in Martha...
usually used of soldiers under the same commander. While its feminine form (hetaîra) would be used for courtesans, a hetaîros was still a form of soldier in...
"types" or aspects of the feminine psyche: the Amazon, the Mother, the Hetaira, and the Medial (or mediumistic) Woman. Wolff was born in 1888, the eldest...
river of human excrement, similar to what their flatteries were. Thaïs the hetaira is found there. Simoniacs are punished here. They are turned upside down...
BC) was a famous hetaira or courtesan of ancient Greece, who was probably born in Corinth. She shared a name with the younger hetaira Lais of Hyccara;...
("concubinage") enforced by contract; and Sue Blundell describes Aspasia as a hetaira and mistress of Pericles. Aspasia and Pericles had a son, Pericles the...
ISBN 978-1-4214-0464-6. Lidov, Joel (2002). "Sappho, Herodotus and the Hetaira". Classical Philology. 97 (3): 203–237. doi:10.1086/449585. JSTOR 1215522...
(1) And did not Alexander the Great have with him Thais, the Athenian hetaira? Cleitarchus speaks of her as having been the cause for the burning of...
had a temple of Aphrodite, the goddess of love, employing some thousand hetairas (temple prostitutes) (see also Temple prostitution in Corinth). The city...
to Roman sources, Parthian kings had harems full of female slaves and hetairas secluded from contact with men, and royal women were not allowed to participate...
poetry was in fact composed by two different authors; that Praxilla was a hetaira (courtesan); that she was a professional musician; or that the drinking...
la Mujer Prostituida) while sex workers' rights organisations include Hetaira (Madrid), as well as regional organisations such as SICAR Asturias, AMTTTSE...
(2010) Walter Kerr Theatre, Broadway (2011) Lysistrata Jones Patti Murin Hetaira Liz Mikel Michelangelo "Mick" Jackson Andrew Rannells Josh Segarra Xander...
perfumed oil, and is likely to have been owned by a high-class courtesan (hetaira) by the name of Aineta, who may be portrayed in a drawing on its handle...
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