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Rhodopis came to Egypt to work, brought by Xanthes of Samos, but upon her arrival was freed for a lot of money by Kharaxus of Mytilene, son of Scamandronymus and brother of Sappho the poetess.
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Thus Rhodopis lived as a free woman in Egypt, where, as she was very alluring, she acquired a lot of money—sufficient for such a Rhodopis, so to speak, but not for such a pyramid.
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Seeing that to this day anyone who likes can calculate what one tenth of her worth was, she cannot be credited with great wealth. For Rhodopis desired to leave a memorial of herself in Greece, by having something made which no one else had thought of or dedicated in a temple and presenting this at Delphi to preserve her memory;
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so she spent one tenth of her substance on the manufacture of a great number of iron beef spits, as many as the tenth would pay for, and sent them to Delphi; these lie in a heap to this day, behind the altar set up by the Chians and in front of the shrine itself.
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The courtesans of Naucratis seem to be peculiarly alluring, for the woman of whom this story is told became so famous that every Greek knew the name of Rhodopis, and later on a certain Archidice was the theme of song throughout Greece, although less celebrated than the other.
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Kharaxus, after giving Rhodopis her freedom, returned to Mytilene. He is bitterly attacked by Sappho in one of her poems. This is enough about Rhodopis.
Herodotus, with an English translation by A. D. Godley. Cambridge. Harvard University Press. 1920.
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- Raphael Kühner, Bernhard Gerth, Ausführliche Grammatik der griechischen Sprache, KG 3.2.4
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- LSJ, ἀνά
- LSJ, ἀνάκειμαι
- LSJ, ἀνατίθημι
- LSJ, βου-πόρος
- LSJ, δέκα^τος
- LSJ, ἐγχωρ-έω
- LSJ, ἐπαφρόδ-ι_τος
- LSJ, ἐργα^σ-ία
- LSJ, κατακερτομέω
- LSJ, λύω
- LSJ, μέλος
- LSJ, μουσο-ποιός
- LSJ, νέω
- LSJ, παύω
- LSJ, περιλεσχήνευτος
- LSJ, ποί-ημα
- LSJ, ποιέω
- LSJ, συννέω
- LSJ, ὡς
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