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To study the role of women in Ancient Greek intellectual landscape means facing the absence of textual evidence of their work, which forces to employ the testimonies of their lives embedded, almost always, in others thinkers' doxography. This is the case of Aspasia of Miletus, who was part of Pericles' circle. In this paper I will present a doxographical reconstruction of Aspasia's activity in the fifth century, bearing in mind the historical situation when she lived and the challenges she faced for being a woman. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

We reflect in this paper on the meaning of the nietzschean interpretation of Greece, that although problematic and philosophical, it places itself within the classical western tradition. By determining the intellectual atmosphere in which the "Birth of tragedy" saw its light, we postulate that the German thinker cannot be classified as an "anticlassicist", but as a "neo-hellenist" in whose work we find a struggle between two currents: classical orthodox philology and romantic philology, developing a new type of philology that reconciles reason with art, through a philosophical conception that searches for a deep insight of self-existence within the hellenic world. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]