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Courtesan

  • Aphrodite Heteira: Courtesan

    Welcome back to Aphrodisia Week 2026 here on White Rose of Avalon, my Darlings.   For this fifth post, I will be discussing Aphrodite’s epithet of Heteira, which means Courtesan!   In this post, I will explore what the term Courtesan means and what it brings to mind for me, as Aphrodite Heteira is a…

  • Veronica Franco: Dangerous Beauty, Courtesan, and Poet

    Welcome back to White Rose of Avalon, my Darlings.   This week’s Femme Fatale Friday post is about the iconic poet and Courtesan Veronica Franco!   She was the subject of the 1998 film Dangerous Beauty, which was based on the biography The Honest Courtesan by Margaret F. Rosenthal.    Veronica Franco was born in…