Travels Through Time #6 – Armand D’Angour, 450 BC
In this episode meet Socrates and Aspasia: the philosopher who changed the way we think about the world and the woman who changed him.
This episode's destination is Athens' golden age, where Classicist Armand D’Angour explores the life of Socrates. We visit Socrates as the young son of a stonemason, as the intelligent scholar and as the wise old philosopher.
Most of all, D’Angour introduces us to a revolutionary new figure in the story of Socrates’ education: the underappreciated, yet influential Asparia. Known as the lover and partner of the statesman Pericles, Asperia has often been written off as a brothel keeper or courtesan. D’Angour describes her as 'One of the most striking, eloquent and controversial women of her age' and shares new evidence that Asperia guided Socates, introducing ideas so important for his later philosophy.
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