Though hardly believable as a true story, Dangerous Beauty (Warner Brothers) mesmerizingly captures the life and struggle of poetess and courtesan Veronica Franco (Catherine McCormack, Braveheart).

Ancient Greek Courtesan Aspasia as a Feminist Heroine: Then and Now. Credit: Patrick Gray / Flickr CC BY 2.0 Aspasia was born in Greece in the fifth century BC. She and Pericles, the great general and ...