Episode 34: Was it better to be a hetaera than a wife in Athens?

Episode here: https://bit.ly/2RFN8zE 

Some sources here. A lot of the trials came from Demosthenes.  You can read Demosthenes Against Neaera here http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Dem.+59+1&redirect=true and Isaeus on Alke here http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3atext%3a1999.01.0142%3aspeech%3d6 should you so wish. 

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