This episode focuses on Aspasia of Miletus. She was the lover and mistress of the Ancient Athenian soldier and politician, Pericles.

Sources:

Plutarch, Lives - https://www.gutenberg.org/files/674/674-h/674-h.htm#2H_4_0012

Henry, Madeline, Aspasia of Miletus and Her Biographical Tradition (1995)

The Periclean Citizenship Law of 451/0 B.C. - June 2007 - https://www.ancienthistory.org.uk/downloads/ma/demes-and-democracy-essay.pdf

Self-Portrait as Aspasia" by Marie Gineviève Bouliar (1794)