Aristagora

Aristagora (Ancient Greek: Ἀρισταγόρα) can refer to one of two women in classical antiquity:

  • Aristagora, a hetaira, and mistress of the orator Hyperides, against whom he afterwards delivered two orations.[1][2] In these orations, Hyperides accuses her of breaking immigration law by failing to obtain a citizen sponsor, as was required by law in Attica. However it is generally believed by modern scholars that the accusation, though perhaps true, was essentially a pretext on which Hyperides could harass Aristagora after a bad breakup.[3][4]
  • Aristagora, a woman of Corinth, also a hetaira, and the mistress of Demetrius of Phalerum, the grandson of (the much more well known) Demetrius of Phalerum.[5]

References
  1. Athenaeus, Deipnosophistae xiii. pp. 590, d. 586, a. 587, d. 588, c.
  2. Harpocration, Lexicon of the Ten Orators s.v. Ἀφύαι
  3. Kapparis, Konstantinos (2017). Prostitution in the Ancient Greek World. Walter de Gruyter. ISBN 9783110556803. Retrieved 2019-09-02.
  4. Kapparis, Konstantinos A. (2018). Athenian Law and Society. Routledge. ISBN 9781317177517. Retrieved 2019-09-02.
  5. Athenaeus, Deipnosophistae 4.167d. e.

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Smith, William (1870). "Aristagora". In Smith, William (ed.). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. 1. p. 289.

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