Xanthippe, Socrates's wife, was one of the few women who didn't fit into this mold, and stood out as a "shrew" for often shouting at Socrates and berating him publicly.2 However, she was an expectation to the norm, alongside a group of foreign-born, well educated, courtesan woman, called hetaerae, that were paid to accompany men to places that other woman were not permitted to attend.3 Aspasia became the most famous and influential of the hetaerae. ... There are several quotes and writings from men in ancient Greece who were not shy about how they felt regarding the positio...

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Xanthippe, Socrates's wife, was one of the few women who didn't fit into this mold, and stood out as a "shrew" for often shouting at Socrates and berating him publicly.2 However, she was an expectation to the norm, alongside a group of foreign-born, well educated, courtesan woman, called hetaerae, that were paid to accompany men to places that other woman were not permitted to attend.3 Aspasia became the most famous and influential of the hetaerae. ... There are several quotes and writings from men in ancient Greece who were not shy about how they felt regarding the positio...

• Word Count: 2630
• Approx Pages: 11
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As Plato once said "philosophy begins in wonder". Plato was part of a triad of great thinkers who had in common a student - teacher relationship built on questioning and discussion rather than memorization and recollection of facts. Although they agreed and disagreed on many topics, it was their s...

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• Grade Level: High School

It is probably Constable's most famous image and one of the greatest and most popular English paintings. ... The simple yet charming picture has had a great influence on modern landscape painting and made the area it was painted in, the East of England famous. ... Galitz also quotes Charles Baudelaire "Romanticism is precisely situated neither in choice of subject nor in exact truth, but in a way of feeling." ...

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Plato vs. Augustine on the Nature of Humanity Humans have struggled throughout the centuries with the complexity and ambiguity of our humanity. The question of who or what we are as humans is difficult one and does not have an easy answer. Our first understanding of humanity is based within ...

• Word Count: 2720
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• Grade Level: High School