Word: aspasia
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...catastrophe. The poet makes us understand the conduct of Medea, although no real sympathy with her unnatural deed is possible. Medea herself was, in the minds of the Athenians, a real and terrible woman, who could no more be explained away as a moon myth than could Xantippe or Aspasia...
...talk about. As for music, this correspondent says the real appreciative lover of music doesn't abound there, and the occasional Symphony concerts in Sanders Theatre are attended only for form's sake. It's lucky for this correspondent that hazing has gone by in Cambridge; otherwise Pericles and Aspasia would take him out and hold him under a pump nozzle." - Boston Herald...