Summary
Hetera in Ancient Greek Literature
Atheneus: Sophist Musicians
Lucian: Dialogues of the Hetera
Alkiphron: Letters of the Hetera
Pseudo-Demosthenes: Speech against Neera
Greek Anthology: Selection from Epigrams
Edited by: Dejan Acović
"To live with one's wife means this: to have children with her, to present sons to one's phratry and demi, and marry daughters. We have heteres for pleasure, harlots for ordinary fornication, and wives for legitimate childbirth and faithful guardians of the household."
PSEUDO-DEMOSTHENES
Speech against Neera
"It is also reported that Demosthenes the orator had children with a hetero; he himself, in his speech On Gold, brought the children before the judges to arouse compassion, but without the mother. judge, but he hoped to avoid slander. Thus, when he fell in love with a young man named Aristarchus, he went astray in regard to food, companions, and women. What a man can say about Demosthenes in one night that he brought home a young man named Knosion, although he had a wife; she got angry and slept with Knosion herself.
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