Lais

Role: courtesan · First appears: Book 2 · Chapter 2

Lais was captured as a child by Nicias and the Athenians, then sold at Corinth. She later went to Thessaly when she was enamoured of Hippostratus.

Relationship record

Life events

• Lais was captured as a child and sold at Corinth by Nicias and the Athenians.(Book 2 · Chapter 2 · 📍 Corinth)
  • With: Nicias
  • “She is said to have come originally from Hyccara in Sicily, and to have been taken prisoner as a child by Nicias and the Athenians, and to have been sold at Corinth”

Book 2 · Chapter 2

• courtship with Hippostratus (Lais was enamoured of Hippostratus.) “And there is another monument of Lais said to exist in Thessaly: for she went to Thessaly when she was enamoured of Hippostratus.”
• with Nicias (Nicias participated in taking Lais prisoner.) “She is said to have come originally from Hyccara in Sicily, and to have been taken prisoner as a child by Nicias and the Athenians, and to have been sold at Corinth,”
• admired: Hippostratus (Lais was enamoured of Hippostratus.) “And there is another monument of Lais said to exist in Thessaly: for she went to Thessaly when she was enamoured of Hippostratus.”

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Extracted from the original text of Pausanias' Description of Greece. Made with Rho MD.