[8] There were several hetaerae named Lais. One of them, apparently a native of Corinth, was celebrated throughout Greece as the most beautiful woman of her age. [9] For information respecting the hetaerae the reader is referred to the _Letters_ of Alciphron, to Lucian's _Dialogues_ on courtesans, and more particularly to the _Deipnosophists_ of Athenaeus, Chap. XIII. See also _The Lives and Opinions of the Ancient Philosophers_, by Diogenes Laertius, Bohn Edition, London. [10] Donaldson, op. cit., pp. 61 and 62. Adolph Schmidt, one of the late biographers of Aspasia, accepts these statements as true and credits to Aspasia the making of both Pericles and Socrates. His views are also shared by other modern writers who have made a special study of the subject. According to some writers an indirect allusion to Aspasia's intellectual superiority is found in the _Medea_ of Euripedes in the following verses of the women's chorus: "In subtle questions I full many a time Have heretofore engaged, and this great point Debated, whether woman should extend Her search into abstruse and hidden truths. But we too have a Muse, who with our sex Associates to expound the mystic lore Of wisdom, though she dwell not with us all." [11] It is proper to add that certain modern writers will not admit that Aspasia was ever an hetaera in the sense of being a courtesan. After Pericles had divorced his first wife, he lived with Aspasia as his second wife, to whom he was devoted and faithful until death. According to Greek law, which forbade Athenian citizens to marry foreign women, he could not be her legal husband; but, there can be no doubt that he always treated her with all the respect and affection due to a wife. His dying words: "Athens entrusted her greatness and Aspasia her happiness to me," clearly evince her nobility of character and the place she must ever have occupied in the great statesman's heart. The most important notices in ancient writings, respecting Aspasia, are found in Plutarch's _Pericles_, Xenophon's _Memorabilia_ of Socrates and Plato's _Menexenus_. Among the most valuable of modern works on the same subject is _Aspasie de Milet_, by L. Becq de Fouquieres, Paris, 1872. Cf. also _Aspasie et le Siecle de Pericles_, Paris, 1862; _Histoire des Deux Aspasies_, by Le Comte de Bievre, Paris, 1736, and A. Schmidt's _Sur l'Age de Pericles_, 1877-79. [12] Under the term music, Plato, like his contemporaries, included reading, writing, literature, mathematics, astronomy and harmony. It was opposed to gymnastic as mental to bodily training. Both music and gymnastic, however, were intended for the benefit of the soul. [13] _The Dialogues of Plato, Laws_, VII, 805, Jowett's translation, New York, 1892. [14] Op. cit., _The Republic_, V, 451 et seq. and 466.