Bilistic

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Bilistiche ( Greek  Βιλιστίχη ), also Belistiche and Belestiche , was a Greek hetaera of unknown origin.

According to Pausanias , she came from the Kingdom of Macedonia . According to Plutarch , she was sold to Greece as a slave. It won 264 BC. The Synoris - the chariot race with a pair of teams - at the Olympic Games . She became the lover of Ptolemy II and idolized by him as Aphrodite Bilistiche . Clement of Alexandria claims she was buried in the Serapeum of Alexandria .

literature

  • Elizabeth Kosmetikatou: Bilistiche and the Quasi-Institutional Status of Ptolemaic Royal Mistress. In: Archiv für Papyrusforschung 50 (2004), pp. 18–36.

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Remarks

  1. ↑ a b Pausanias 5: 8, 11.
  2. ↑ Plutarch, Moralia 753e.
  3. ^ Sarah B. Pomeroy: Women in Hellenistic Egypt: From Alexander to Cleopatra. Wayne State University Press, Detroit 1990, pp. 53-55.
  4. ↑ Clemens of Alexandria, protrepticus ad Graecos 4,108, called Blistichis by him.
personal data
SURNAME Bilistic
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Belistiche; Belestiche; Blistichis
BRIEF DESCRIPTION courtesan
DATE OF BIRTH before 264 BC Chr.
DATE OF DEATH 3rd century BC BC or 2nd century BC Chr.