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- hetaira (/hɪˈtaɪrə/; Ancient Gr****: ἑταίρα, lit. 'companion'; pl.. ἑταῖραι hetairai, /hɪˈtaɪraɪ/), Latinized as hetaera (/hɪˈtɪrə/ pl. hetaerae /hɪˈtɪriː/)...
- who had a re****tion for ****ociating with hetairai. Six of the speeches attributed to him relate to hetairai, and in a surviving fragment of his defense...
- Gnathaena (Ancient Gr****: Γνάθαινα) was an Athenian hetaira (plural: hetairai), a class of ancient Gr**** prostitutes who were companions to wealthy men...
- on an Attic red-figure psykter by Euphronios, depicting four hetairai. One of the hetairai on the vase, Smikra, is swinging her cup, as a kottabos player...
- both free-born voluntary prostitutes, including the high social status hetairai, as well as involuntary slave prostitutes. Male prostitutes also existed...
- Hetairai at Haloa festival dancing around a giant phallus (Oedipus Painter, 480 BC)...
- Pandemos, either because her image stood in the agora, or because the hetairai had to pay the costs of its erection. The worship of Aphrodite Pandemos...
- (cheap street prostitutes typically owned as slaves by wealthy pimps) to hetairai (expensive, well-educated hired companions, who were usually self-emplo****...
- women of status did not attend symposia, high-class female prostitutes (hetairai) and entertainers were hired to perform, consort, and converse with the...
- Hetairai are described as providing "flattering and skillful conversation" in Athenaeus' Deipnosophistai. classical literature describes hetairai as...