Crossword-Solution: HETAERAE 8 letters, 2 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 11

From what has been said about the Greek view of women, it might naturally have been supposed that there can have been little place in their life for all that we designate under the term "romance." Personal affection, as we have seen, was not the basis of married life; and relations with Hetaerae appear to have been, in this respect, no finer or higher than similar relations in our own times.

There are the elements of a socialist question in the feelings between rich and poor described in the _Saturnalia_; while, on the other hand, the fact of there being an audience for the _Dialogues of the Hetaerae_ is an illustration of that spirit of _humani nihil a me alienum puto_ which is again prevalent today.

His works were very numerous, but chiefly from the circle of Dionysus, Aphrodite, and Eros, in which adoration for corporeal attractions is the most marked peculiarity, and for which the artist was fitted by his life with the hetaerae.

Nothing in all Latin poetry is so unpleasant as his brutal attacks on those _hetaerae_ (the only ladies of whom he seems to have had any knowledge) whose caprice or neglect had offended him.

Her mother was of Miletus, famed for the intellectual cultivation of the sex, no less than for their beauty--of Miletus, the birthplace of Aspasia--of Miletus, from which those remarkable women who, under the name of Hetaerae, exercised afterwards so signal an influence over the mind and manners of Athens, chiefly derived their origin, and who seem to have inspired an affection, which in depth, constancy, and fervour, approached to the more chivalrous passion of the North.