Quote: " In Deipnosohostae, Athenaeus several times associates Aspasia with Socrates, and he says flatly that she was 'Socrates' teacher in rhetoric.' In this passage she is shown teaching Socrates to woo the man he loves, Alcibiades, not with sexual allure but with intellectual inducements. A dialogue attributed to her by Xenophon is cited without question by Cicero as an illustration of what he calls "inductive" argument, a Socratic approach."
Question: Is it plausible that a woman could posses these intellectual philosophical and rhetorical skills in classical Greece?
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