Even when the term " hetaira " was used to refer to a specific class of prostitute, though, scholars disagree on what precisely the line of demarcation was.
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I can't think of any examples of high-powered prostitutes like the classical Hetaira, although the Church was briefly accused of being ruled by prostitutes ( the " Pornocracy " ).
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:I can't preview that book, but " hetairistria " is a synonym for " tribas " ( meaning " lesbian " ), according to LSJ . This is related to hetaira, a courtesan.
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Her best-known paper was an essay on four " types " or aspects of the feminine psyche : the Amazon, the Mother, the Hetaira ( or Courtesan ), and the Medial ( or mediumistic ) Woman.
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When she became the first woman to hold the Junior Fellowship at Harvard, Nussbaum received a congratulatory note from a " prestigious classicist " who suggested that since " female fellowess " was an awkward name, she should be called " hetaira ", for in Greece these educated courtesans were the only women who participated in philosophical symposia.
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Criticisms of anomalies in anatomy and detail and doubts of the Ludovisi Throne's authenticity were summed up by Jerome Eisenberg in a 1996 article in " Minerva ", which asserted, in part, that the " hetaira " flute-player was derived from a late-sixth-century BCE " psykter " by Euphronius, published in 1857 in the Hermitage from the Campana collection.
