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What does hetaera mean?

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Noun
  1. (historical) A mistress, especially a highly cultivated courtesan in ancient Greece.
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The dangers of pleasure are portrayed in comedy in the figures of the chef, parasite and hetaera.
Some similarities have been found between the Greek hetaera, the Japanese oiran, and also the Indian tawaif.
But that a woman had to be a hetaera before she could be a woman is the worst condemnation of the Athenian family.
And a woman with a hetaera mask, playing the aulos is accompanied by an assistant, an unmasked boy on the left.
Woman is dethroned as the primary and supreme sex, debased into inseminable hetaera.
However, even when Myriam evokes the emerged men of the shades of her past of a fix-price hetaera, she has any bitterness, any nastiness.

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