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Hetaera

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Hetaera 

in ancient Greece, an educated, unmarried woman leading a free, independent way of life. Some hetaerae played a significant role in civic life. Many outstanding political figures, poets, and sculptors gathered in the houses of the hetaerae. The term “hetaera” was also applied to prostitutes.



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As for the personages of the novel, Solaris arranged for a rendezvous with their unconscious: the protagonist with his lover, whose death he was considered responsible for, and Gebarian, another scientist who was working in the laboratory, with the fruit of his imagination, a gigantic black woman--a hetaera and mother in one person.
I remained there many years Because I had nowhere to, I wanted to speak, fortify myself with words, prove Myself to the hetaeras who had pushed me aside for lack of money.
The roles in such poetry were sharply defined: "the unwavering devotion of an upright, poetically talented, young upper-class Roman stands over against the infidelity of a hetaera [courtesan];" because of her inconstancy, the male amator suffers for his love.
 
 
 
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