Hetairas

Word HETAIRAS
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Definitions and meanings of "Hetairas"

What do we mean by hetairas?

A highly cultivated hired female companion who would entertain upper-class male clients and might perform sex acts for them.

A mistress.

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The word "hetairas" in example sentences

This was the evening promenade of the Alexandrians, who would pause to notice the progress of the work; off-duty soldiers of Macedon and Egypt, merchants and craftsmen from Greece and Lydia and Tyre and Cyprus and Judaea; wives and children, and hetairas looking for trade. ❋ Renault, Mary, 1905-1983 (1981)

He had been uneasy with a harem, its claustral and stifling femininity, after the free-and-easy Greek hetairas. ❋ Renault, Mary, 1905-1983 (1981)

It did not take me long to observe that this happened in cities polite enough to have some clean amusing hetairas. ❋ Renault, Mary (1978)

Since I was a man, I'd been used to seeing men leave parties with women they had picked up there, dancers or flute-girls or hetairas. ❋ Renault, Mary (1978)

Of course all good hetairas pretend that you have pleased them; but at least I don't think she guessed I had never done it before. ❋ Renault, Mary (1978)

He had bought for each guest a night with one of the first hetairas in Athens. ❋ Renault, Mary (1978)

It was a big one; all his best friends; also their mistresses, if they were suitable; meaning as a rule Greek hetairas of good standing. ❋ Renault, Mary (1972)

It was coming from the block where the hetairas sit; they love a good cry more than figs. But it was a few years yet before I knew enough to look for them. ❋ Renault, Mary, 1905-1983 (1966)

I'm about the city all day, scraping acquaintance, joining hetairas 'evening parties, talking to bathmen and barbers, to learn the temper of the people. ❋ Renault, Mary, 1905-1983 (1966)

Actors and hetairas, in different ways, hear about affairs if they have time to listen, and Kallippos knew it. ❋ Renault, Mary, 1905-1983 (1966)

As the drink gained on him he grew grosser in his pleasures; Philemon, who had lately appeared at the theater there, assured me that the very hetairas, when the Archon asked them to supper, drew for the short straw because no one wanted to go. ❋ Renault, Mary, 1905-1983 (1966)

I was more amused by the high-priced hetairas who had come in from other towns and set up house to the rage of the Delphi girls; they would make a better audience than all these peace-traders. ❋ Renault, Mary, 1905-1983 (1966)

All you can say for such a host is that he does hire the best hetairas. ❋ Renault, Mary, 1905-1983 (1966)

What with this and that, he decided to greet me; but by the time he made up his mind to it, the other gentlemen had gone; it was mostly actors and hetairas and old friends; and Theodoros, who had hated his own role, was burlesquing it, kneeling on a table for the Naxian shore, with words of his own invention. ❋ Renault, Mary, 1905-1983 (1966)

When the host wants novelty, and can pay, with the place so full too of hetairas and acrobats and so on, one thing leads to another. ❋ Renault, Mary, 1905-1983 (1966)

All the hetairas put on their thinnest silk dresses, like nakedness but prettier, and drove shoreward in painted carriages, singing to the lyre. ❋ Renault, Mary, 1905-1983 (1966)

It was a place, then as now, for the women of the middle sort, who liked to call themselves hetairas and not whores. ❋ Renault, Mary (1978)

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