Hetaera

Roman hetaera, relief, around 2nd century — head is missing. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Pericles' celebrated hetaera, Aspasia, came from Miletos. ❋ Walter Jon Williams (2009)

The godlike Xenocrates showed this by the firmness of his reason, who was declared by the famous hetaera Phryne to be a statue and not a man, when all her blandishments could not shake his resolve, as Valerius Maximus relates at length. ❋ Unknown (2007)

He owned a shield factory and was wealthy enough to have a hetaera, a high-class prostitute, if that's what Aspasia was. ❋ Unknown (2005)

You see, a friend of mine, wife of another friend and they were both close to me-as a special gift she introduced me to another hetaera, a great beauty, and arranged for me a holiday with her-paid for by my friends; they could afford it, she is wealthy. ❋ Heinlein, Robert A. (1973)

I'm not speaking of technique; I suspect that any high-priced hetaera in New Rome is as skilled as any famous courtesan in history. ❋ Heinlein, Robert A. (1973)

A great hetaera never proposes a contract and usually won't listen if a man is bold enough to propose one himself. ❋ Heinlein, Robert A. (1973)

Not a slut, but what is a hetaera; and not a hetaera, but what is well-nigh Kypris herself! ❋ Bernard Guilbert Guerney (1904)

In Xenophon. [28] he goes with a friend to a hetaera, who is sitting as a model for a painter, and instructs her in the art of enticing men. ❋ 1819-1870 (1873)

Aspasia took advantage of this and became a hetaera, or really high class hooker. ❋ Unknown (2009)

"We have hetaera for pleasure, concubines for the daily care of the body and wives for the production of full-blooded children and as reliable guardians in the house" ❋ Unknown (2009)

On such occasions, he might refer to her as a hetaera (a high-class whore) or a coprophiliac (someone who eats excrement). ❋ Bill Morgan (2010)

Thaïs an Athenian hetaera of the 4th century B.C. who accompanied Alexander the Great to Persia, later becoming the concubine of Ptolemy I, King of Egypt; another courtesan of this name lived in Alexandria in the ❋ Unknown (1981)

Aspasia consort of Pericles; though she was not actually a hetaera, "dour biographers call her an adventuress" ❋ Unknown (1981)

Well, in the case of Bal á Versailles, I really do smell somewhat like an, ahem, courtesan, hetaera, gentleman’s companion, or whatever you want to call it. ❋ Marina Geigert (2008)

[Kathy] is a Hetaera. ❋ Deep Blue 2012 (2010)