But life would be different for Aspasia. Born in Miletus, an Ionian Greek settlement on the coast of Western Turkey, she would not be bound by the same rules that restricted Athenian citizen women ...
In 451 Pericles introduced a new citizenship law which prevented the son of an Athenian father and a non-Athenian mother becoming a full citizen. The law's main effect was to curb the power of the ...