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[5] Later, moreover, he sent and brought from Athens the most dazzling courtesan of the day, whose name was Pythonice.1 As long as she lived he gave her gifts worthy of a queen, and when she died, he gave her a magnificent funeral and erected over her grave a costly monument of the Attic type.

1 She is mentioned by Athenaeus 13.586c, who refers to accounts of her by Theopompus and Cleitarchus.

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