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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.
Herodotus, some five centuries before Strabo, records a popular legend about a possibly-related courtesan named Rhodopis in his Histories, claiming that Rhodopis came from Thrace, and was the slave of Iadmon (Ἰάδμων) of Samos, and a fellow-slave of the story-teller Aesop and that she was taken to Egypt in the time of Pharaoh Amasis (570 ...
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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 ).
[24] "History", or specifically biblical history, in this context appears to mean a definitive and finalized framework of events and actions—comfortingly familiar shared facts—like an omniscient medieval chronicle, shorn of alternative accounts, [25] psychological interpretations, [26] or literary pretensions. But prominent scholars have ...
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In search of history: historiography in the ancient world and the origins of biblical history. Eisenbrauns. ISBN 978-1-57506-013-2. Wiseman, D.J. (1970). "Books in the Ancient Near East and in the Old Testament". In Ackroyd, P.R.; Evans, C.F. (eds.). The Cambridge History of the Bible: From the Beginnings to Jerome. Vol. I. Cambridge University ...
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