Of the Greek classic hetairos hetaira hetairon, mate. The hetairas or heteras Greek were women of company that, as say my colleagues, had a level cultural, social and economic high more next to the Geisha Japanese that to our prostitutes ( porne pornes ). Hetairas famous from it Greece casica were Phyrne, model and lover of the sculptor Praxiteles, reflected in the Venus of Cnidus and Aspasia, lover of the ruler Pericles.