Closeup of Aspasia of Miletus from The Greeks documentary In cities such as Athens women had few rights and little opportunity to take part in sports, theatre, or public life.

Aspasia came from a high-born Athenian family, related to that of Pericles, which had settled in the Greek city of Miletus in Ionia (Asia Minor) some decades earlier. When she migrated to Athens ...

Closeup of Aspasia of Miletus from The Greeks documentary In 451 Pericles introduced a new citizenship law which prevented the son of an Athenian father and a non-Athenian mother becoming a full ...