Quotes About Aspasia

my Clodius, how little your countrymen know of the true versatility of a Pericles, of the true witcheries of an Aspasia!

I think it's ironic when Plato makes the learned woman Aspasia Socrates' teacher, but I think women crop up more in the Platonic dialogues than they do normally in texts of the period, and in an un-hysterical way.