Rhodope (courtesan)
See also: Rhodope
Rhodope was a Greek courtesan of the Antiquité, native of Thrace.
It was the mistress of Ésope, slave like it at the court of a king of Samos.
Having been led in Egypt by Xanthos de Lesbos, it was bought by Charax, Mytilénien, brother of Sappho, which married it.
In the continuation it is established with Naucratis, where it acquired of so great wealths of selling its favors, that it could, says one, to build with his expenses a Pyramide.
Élien brings back a Anecdote according to which an eagle stole one of its slippers to him whereas it was with the bath. The bird dropped nevertheless the slipper to the feet from the Pharaon Psammétique. This one struck of stupor by the delicacy of the slipper, promised to marry the woman to whom this slipper belonged. This anecdote can be regarded as the source of the tale of Cendrillon .
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