followed the troops on service in crowds, accompanying for instance the general _Chares_[157] and _Pericles_ to Samos, where they made so large an income that they even built a temple of Ἀφροδίτη ἐν Καλάμοις (Aphrodité at Calami,—the Reeds)[158]. For the remaining details as to the life of the hetaerae the classical Treatise of _Friedrich Jacobs_[159] should be consulted. Even these regular “filles de joie” at first existed almost exclusively for foreigners, who often squandered prodigious sums in their arms; the Athenians at any rate up to the time of Themistocles did not go with them[160]. But the example proved too strong to resist. Little by little the younger men acquired a taste for the freer society of the highly educated and luxuriously bedecked[161] courtesans, who on their side were possessed of tact enough to subordinate the purely sensual to the intellectual, in order to captivate the Greek sense of beauty. Even older men might easily be seen at their feet, for the Greek ladies had but too little aptitude for stepping beyond the household sphere[162]. And so it was no longer matter for surprise when _Chares_ took with him on his expedition, as stated above, a large number of hetaerae. The Athenian youth was already in the habit of killing time in their society[163]; and the important rôle they played in the time of _Pericles_ needs to be no further insisted on. The Greek however never descended to the lowest level of shameless, brutal, coarseness. Before he threw himself into the arms of the foreign Wanton, he first raised her to some equality with himself; and of the handmaid and slave made a friendly companion or hetaera! The account here given applies particularly only to Athens, for our efforts to discover anything more precise as to brothels and courtesans in the remaining States and Cities of Greece have not so far been crowned with success. § 11.