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Pat Wheatley: Lamia and the Besieger: An Athenian Hetaera and a Macedonian King. In: Olga Palagia; Stephen Tracey: The Macedonians in Athens, 322–229 B.C. Proceedings of an international conference held at the University of Athens, May 24–26, 2001, Oakville 2003, S.
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The excess and magnificence of the banquets which she gave to Demetrius are much discussed. However, she is recorded to have used the treasures which were lavished upon her by building a splendid
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Lamia was the daughter of one Cleanor. She began her career as a flute-player on the stage, for which she gained some fame, but afterwards abandoned it for life as a
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also cohabited with a woman named Lamia, whom he calls an Athenian of noble birth. That Lamia is presumably a different person, if the story is not an error.
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Sabine Müller: In the favour of Aphrodite: Sulla, Demetrius Poliorcetes, and the symbolic value of the hetaera, in: AHB 23, 2009, S. 38–49.
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Konstantinos Kapparis: Prostitution in the Ancient Greek World, Berlin, Boston 2018.
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Pat Wheatley, Charlotte Dunn: Demetrius the Besieger, Oxford 2020.
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It is not known how she found herself on board of the fleet of
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Paulys Realencyclopädie der classischen Altertumswissenschaft
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Demetrius Poliorcetes with the Flautist Lamia and Her Friend
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Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology
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300 BC) was a celebrated courtesan, and mistress of
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