Lamia

Role: mistress of Demetrius · First appears: Demetrius

Demetrius

• courtship with Demetrius Poliorcetes “Demetrius was much her junior, she exercised over him so great a charm, that all other women seemed to be amorous of Demetrius, but Demetrius amorous only of Lamia”
• with Demetrius Poliorcetes (interaction) “all other women seemed to be amorous of Demetrius, but Demetrius amorous only of Lamia.”

Comparison of Demetrius and Antony

• courtship with Demetrius Poliorcetes “and his Lamia, like that of the fable, belonged only to his playful, half-waking, half-sleeping hours.”
• with Demetrius Poliorcetes (Lamia was Demetrius's companion or mistress.) “pleasures with him attended only the superabundance of his ease, and his Lamia, like that of the fable, belonged only to his playful, half-waking, half-sleeping hours.”

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Extracted from the original text of Plutarch's Lives. Made with Rho MD.