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Rhodopis (hetaera)

For other uses, see Rhodopis (disambiguation).

Rhodopis or Rodopis (Greek: Ῥοδῶπις), real name possibly Doricha (Δωρίχα), was a celebrated 6th-century BCE Ancient hetaera, of Thracian origin.[1] She is one of only two hetaerae mentioned by name in Herodotus' discussion of the profession (the other is the somewhat later Archidike).[2]

The Beautiful Rhodope, in Love with Aesop; engraving by Francesco Bartolozzi, 1782, after the painting by Angelica Kauffman.
  1. ^ William Smith, ed. "Rhodopis" in the Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology (1870), vol. 1, p. 268.
  2. ^ McClure, Laura (2003). Courtesans at Table: Gender and Greek Literary Culture in Athenaus. London: Routledge. p. 12. ISBN 978-0-415-93947-8.

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