Glory and Lightning Author:Taylor Calwell Aspasia was born to danger. Before her birth, her father had annouunced his intention of abandoning the child to die, should it be a girl. Hidden away and traned as a courtesan Aspasia was educated in the arts of seduction in the exotic world of Persian harems. But when fate and her own sensuous beauty brought her to the bed of Pericles, ruler o... more »f Athens, Aspasia became not only his lover, but his confidant...a wman whose brilliance played her in the precarious enter of Athenian life at he height of the glory that was Greece.« less