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"Rhodopis" (Ancient Greek: Ῥοδῶπις, romanized: Rhodôpis, lit. 'rosy-faced'; Ancient Greek pronunciation: [r̥odɔ̂ːpis] ) is an ancient tale about a Greek slave girl who marries the king of Egypt .
Rhodopis was a beautiful chaste maiden who kept her hair short and loved to hunt in the forests. Artemis, the maiden goddess of the hunt, took notice of her, and invited Rhodopis to join her in the hunt, and thus the young girl shunned marriage as well as all kinds of romantic love.
Rhodopis or Rodopis (Greek: Ῥοδῶπις), real name possibly Doricha (Δωρίχα), was a celebrated 6th-century BCE 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 ).
"Cinderella", [a] or "The Little Glass Slipper", is a folk tale with thousands of variants that are told throughout the world. [2] [3] The protagonist is a young girl living in forsaken circumstances who is suddenly blessed by remarkable fortune, with her ascension to the throne via marriage.
Rhodopis, an ancient Egyptian folk tale and precursor to Cinderella; Rhodopis (hetaera), ancient Greek courtesan mentioned by Herodotus who may underlie the Rhodopis story; Rhodopis and Euthynicus, pair of mythical hunters devoted to Artemis; Rhodopis, a genus of birds with the oasis hummingbird (Rhodopis vesper) as its only living member
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