rch suggests that she was led to do so by the example
of Thargalia. For full accounts of the career of Aspasia see Gomperz,
_Greek Thinkers_, Vol. III.; Ivo Bruns, _Frauenemancipation in Athen_;
the fine monograph, _Aspasie de Milet_, by Becq Fouquieres;
Donaldson's _Woman_, pp. 60-67; also Ellis, _Psychology of Sex_, Vol.
VI. p. 308.

[286] Pericles at the time of his meeting Aspasia was married, but
there was incompatibility of temper between him and his wife. He
therefore made an agreement with his wife to have a divorce and get
her remarried. Aspasia then became his companion and they remained
together until the death of Pericles. Their affection for one another
was considered remarkable. Plutarch tells us, as an extraordinary
trait in the habits of a statesman who was remarkable for his
imperturbability and control, that Pericles regularly kissed Aspasia
when he went out and came in. When Pericles died Aspasia is said to
have formed a friendship with Lysicles, and through her influence
raised him to the position of foremost politician in Athens
(Donaldson, _op. cit._, pp. 60, 61 and 63).

[287] Gomperz, _Greek Thinkers_, Vol. III. p. 124.

[288] _Psychology of Sex_, Vol. VI. p. 308; Donaldson, _op. cit._, p.
62.

[289] _Frauenemancipation in Athen_, p. 19.

[290] _Medea_, Mr. Gilbert Murray's translation.

[291] Frazer thinks that the Roman kingship was transmitted in the
female line; the king being a man of another town or race, who had
married the daughter of his predecessor and received the crown through
her. This hypothesis explains the obscure features of the traditional
history of the Latin kings; their miraculous birth, and the fact that
many of the kings from their names appear to have been of plebeian and
not patrician families. The legends of the birth of Servius Tullius
which tradition imputes to a look, or that Coeculus the founder of
Proneste was conceived by a spark that leaped into his mother's bosom,
as well as the rape of the Sabines, may be mentioned as traces
pointing to mother-descent (_Golden Bough_, Pt. I. _The Magic Art_,
Vol. II. pp. 270, 289, 312).

[292] Quoted from _Position of Woman, Actual and Ideal_; Essay on "The
Position of Woman in History," p. 38.

[293] Letourneau, _Evolution of Marriage_, pp. 120, 201. The _usus_
was similar to the Polynesian marriage, and was the consecration of
the free union after a year of cohabitation. By it the wife passed as
completely under the