Pythionice
Role: courtesan · First appears: Book 1 · Chapter 37
Life events
- Harpalus married Pythionice, who had been a courtesan at Athens and Corinth.(Book 1 · Chapter 37)
- With: Harpalus
- “and before this had married Pythionice, whose extraction I don’t know, but she was a courtesan both at Athens and Corinth.”
- After Pythionice died, Harpalus raised an exceptionally magnificent monument to her.(Book 1 · Chapter 37)
- With: Harpalus
- “He was so enamoured of her that, when she died, he raised this monument to her, the finest of all the ancient works of art in Greece.”
Book 1 · Chapter 37
- married with Harpalus “and before this had married Pythionice”
- with Harpalus (Harpalus was enamoured of Pythionice and raised a monument to her.) “He was so enamoured of her that, when she died, he raised this monument to her”
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Extracted from the original text of Pausanias' Description of Greece. Made with Rho MD.