Friday, November 12, 2010

Pericles & Aspasia (2012)

Historical setting: Antiquity, Classical Antiquity, Classical Greece, Greece, Athens, 5th Century BC

Genre: Drama, Romance

Country: Spain,

Language: English

Director: Julio Medem

Plot Summary: 5th Century of Classical Greece. Aspasia is a young and beautiful woman born in Miletus who moves to Athens where she turns into a hetaera, a high class prostitute, entertainer and courtesan, educated and independent. Being a liberated woman and a relevant figure in Athens, noted for her conversationalist and adviser skills, she becomes the lover of prominent statesman Pericles. Together they will face the great political events of their time while their relationship will suffer defamation by Athenian society.












Writer: Julio Medem,

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