Aristagora (Ancient Greek: Ἀρισταγόρα) can refer to one of two women in classical antiquity:
- Aristagora, a hetaira, and mistress of the orator Hyperides, against whom he afterwards delivered two orations.[1][2] In these orations, Hyperides accuses her of breaking immigration law by failing to obtain a citizen sponsor, as was required by law in Attica. However it is generally believed by modern scholars that the accusation, though perhaps true, was essentially a pretext on which Hyperides could harass Aristagora after a bad breakup.[3][4]
- Aristagora, a woman of Corinth, also a hetaira, and the mistress of Demetrius of Phalerum, the grandson of (the much more well known) Demetrius of Phalerum.[5]
References
edit- ^ Athenaeus, Deipnosophistae xiii. pp. 590, d. 586, a. 587, d. 588, c.
- ^ Harpocration, Lexicon of the Ten Orators s.v. Ἀφύαι
- ^ Kapparis, Konstantinos (2017). Prostitution in the Ancient Greek World. Walter de Gruyter. ISBN 9783110556803. Retrieved 2019-09-02.
- ^ Kapparis, Konstantinos A. (2018). Athenian Law and Society. Routledge. ISBN 9781317177517. Retrieved 2019-09-02.
- ^ Athenaeus, Deipnosophistae 4.167d. e.
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Smith, William (1870). "Aristagora". In Smith, William (ed.). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Vol. 1. p. 289.