#aspasia

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for anyone confused it goes: Aspasia Of Miletus → Socrates → Plato → Aristotle → Alexander the Great

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(revisione maggio 2026) Erma marmorea nei Musei Vaticani con l'iscrizione del nome di Aspasia sulla base, scoperta nel 1777 - Wikipedia , pubblico dominio Il no

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Aspasia

quando idealizzi qualcuno così tanto che diventa praticamente un DLC metafisico:

allora niente raga,
forse il problema non era lei.

forse il problema era che io avevo trasformato una persona reale in una creatura mitologica partorita direttamente dalla mia disperazione romantica.

lei: respirava normalmente
e io:

“Una divina incarnazione della bellezza eterna”

capite il livello di delirio.

e quindi adesso eccomi qui:
costretto ad accettare che l’Aspasia che amavo esisteva soprattutto nella mia testa.

terribile esperienza.
0/10.
consigliata solo se volete:

* soffrire

* perdere lucidità

* scrivere capolavori

comunque lei probabilmente sta vivendo serenamente
e io sto fondando il pessimismo cosmico 2.

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"She was a woman of intelligence and in every respect remarkable. Socrates had the highest opinion of her... But the comic poets took a violent dislike to Aspasia, going so far as to insinuate that she was a harlot and ran a brothel. Marie Delcourt (Pericles, Gallimard, 1939, p. 77) observes:

'No one would have objected if Pericles had been fond of young men or cruel to his first wife. But people were scandalised to find that he considered her successor a human being, keeping her in his own apartments instead of shutting her up in the gynecea and asking his friends to bring their wives to meet her. Such behavior was judged too astonishing to be natural and Aspasia herself too brilliant to be respectable.'

This feminine comment implies severe censure, not to be wondered at, of Athenian habits. But it is not, in fact, so very long since modern man came to a full realisation that 'women, too, are individuals'."

- from Love in Ancient Greece by Robert Flaceliere, Crown Publishers, New York, 1962

[time-traveller-and-immortal]

aspasia talking to elpis who wandered into a lake

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Assassins creed Odyssey characters with a male Misthios

Nikolaos

You were originally hired by Nikolaos just to help slaughter Athenian forces before they could reach the battlefield.

You worked with him for months, watching him train his adopted son Stentor, and learning of his past.

You ended up helping young Stentor, mostly on posture and how to quickly gain the advantage in an unfair situation (something Nikolaos didn’t exactly approve of).

By the time Stentor was in his mid teens, you had a temporary residence with them in their Spartan home, gaining a citizenship as you spent more time with their family.

Originally, you weren’t planning on staying, but, as a misthios, you couldn’t deny that a temporary home to rest sounded like a dream.

Nikolaos is still hesitant around you, being old and weary, yet he treats you like he would treat a member of his family, and if you initiate it, maybe he will treat you like something more.

Once the family is reunited, he happily introduces you to Myrinne, Kassandra, and Deimos/Alexios. Myrinne is a little miffed on how you’ve basically become an old sarcastic man to match Nikolaos, while both being dads to the shithead known as Stentor.

Stentor

He hired you after Kassandra left, he really didn’t want to rehire her. So you were the ‘next best thing’- a cocky misthios who got on his nerves.

You end up doing your best to drive back Athenian forces, making snide remarks back to Stentors borderline violent comments.

He definitely sends you on plenty of missions that were meant to kill you, and a few almost do. He almost ends you himself, the one time you made the mistake of returning to him badly injured.

Nonetheless, whenever he calls you back, he has to pay you just a bit more. He, eventually, and even begrudgingly, gets along with you once the family is back together.

He might even offer you a goblet of wine or a spare bed near the door if you’re unsafe anywhere else. He’s still not going to like you for a while- I like to think that Stentor is the definition of annoyingly slow slowburn.

He’s also just a prick half the time tbh

He does expect you to help him win a sparring match with Deimos, though you might lose some favor from Kassandra… not that Stentor cares.

Kassandra

She’s… hesitant to hire another Misthios.

So she doesn’t- you’re hired to hunt her.

After thoroughly getting your ass beat by the eagle bearer, you learned to stay out of her way. You still payed attention to the message boards- seeing the prices for her head grow and grow.

You don’t go after her again though, but you do drop off the occasional hint so she knows just who’s hunting her. Eventually, she gets sick of that and beats the shit out of you once again, and then confused you even more by inviting you to join her crew.

You do (for a price), and regret it as now you have an eccentric old man yapping in your ear constantly about the gods. Nonetheless, you bond with Kassandra slowly but surely.. and lose dozens of sparring matches.

You get her back by stealing a handful of her bounties once in a while.

Once she finds her family, she invites you to meet her brothers and parents, introducing you as a close friend.

You then get your ass beat by Nikolaos and Myrinne- and then ganged up on by Stentor and Deimos, everyone is under the assumption you’re dating her

They’d be right, but maybe don’t tell them that.

Perikles + Aspasia

Perikles wasn’t the one who hired you- he honestly didn’t even know you were hired until Aspasia brought you in for a friendly chat.

Perikles is definitely nervous around you, but he has you helping his political schemes almost constantly- replacing votes, saving his friends. And sabotaging Kleon, of course.

Aspasia has you on more secretive missions, having you screw with the cult, give Kassandra hidden clues, and try and mess up whatever you possibly can.

You inevitably either get injured or imprisoned, where Aspasia gets you out of that situation and has you hide your weapons and armor- living a ‘normal’ life until the hatred calmed down.

You’re almost a royal pet, being payed like Phoibe, but with much less freedom. It’s dangerous for a misthios in Athens

Deimos (Alexios)

Accepting a bounty from him is basically begging to die, he won’t actually send you on missions, no, he hired you to spar with him and cull the weak members of the cult.

If he does send you on any missions, it’s stalking his family and making sure some of them are dead (they aren’t).

By the time he first meets Kassandra, he has you stalking members of the cult as well, and you’re chronically bruised from his ‘sparring lessons’ that he gave you.

You have some new shiny armor, some sharp weapons, but you’re called Deimos’ pet more often than not. And in truth, you are.

You can’t leave- he will hunt you down and slaughter everyone you care about, and if you accept missions without him he’ll follow you anyway and handle it himself- giving you none of the spoils.

Once he reunited with his family (barely accepting the name ’Alexios’), he drags your ass with him. Your loyalty to him at that point is a little blind, and Kassandra is fighting with both of you to try and regain any sense of normalcy.

You also earn a place on her ship with the rest of the family, albeit you’re usually just with Barnabas and making sure everything in the ship was in fighting shape.

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