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100 1 _aHamerling, Robert,
_d1830-1889
245 1 0 _aAspasia
264 1 _aSalt Lake City, UT :
_bProject Gutenberg,
_c2025
300 _a1 online resource :
_bmultiple file formats
336 _atext
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337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
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500 _aRelease date is 2025-05-10
508 _aJeroen Hellingman and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net/ for Project Gutenberg (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/Canadian Libraries)
520 _a“Aspasia: A Romance of Art and Love in Ancient Hellas” by Robert Hamerling is a historical novel written in the late 19th century. The book focuses on ancient Greece, blending themes of art, politics, and romance, with central figures drawn both from historical record and imaginative reconstruction. The probable main characters include Pericles, the influential Athenian statesman, and Aspasia, the intriguing Milesian woman renowned for her beauty and intellect. The novel appears to explore the intersections of personal and national destiny, with the flourishing of Greek art, the conflicts of moral and aesthetic values, and the magnetic attraction between gifted individuals as key elements. The opening of “Aspasia” sets the scene in bustling, resurgent Athens during the age of Pericles. It introduces a cast of prominent Athenians—Pericles the statesman, Phidias the sculptor, and others in their intellectual circle—against a detailed backdrop of public life, ongoing artistic achievements, and the arrival of the Delian League’s treasure. The focus sharpens on a striking, unnamed woman (later revealed as Aspasia), whose presence stirs both fascination and artistic rivalry. The narrative moves from the city’s vibrant agora to a contest between sculptors, where debates about the nature of beauty, the divine, and the political responsibilities of art unfold. The section closes by shifting to Pericles’ household, revealing tensions between public duty and private life, as well as introducing other key figures such as Pericles’ wife Telesippe and the philosopher Anaxagoras. The early chapters establish the layered interplay between historical circumstance, artistic ambition, philosophical dialogue, and the personal entanglements at the heart of Athenian society. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
534 _pOriginally published:
_cNew York: William S. Gottsberger, Publisher, 1881
653 _aMistresses -- Fiction
653 _aAthens (Greece) -- Fiction
653 _aAspasia -- Fiction
653 _aPericles, approximately 495 B.C.-429 B.C. -- Fiction
653 _aGreece -- History -- Athenian supremacy, 479-431 B.C. -- Fiction
653 _aStatesmen -- Fiction
700 1 _aSafford, Mary J.
_q(Mary Joanna),
_d1842-1916
856 4 _uhttps://archive.org/details/aspasiaromanceof00hameuoft/page/n5/mode/2up
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/76058
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