Glaphyra (hetaera)

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Glaphyra was a in the 1st century BC. Living hetaera . She became the mother of Archelaos Sisines , the later ruler of Cappadocia , through Prince Archelaus of Komana . 41 BC BC she had a love affair with the Roman triumvir Marcus Antonius during his stay in Asia Minor before he met Cleopatra . Perhaps Glaphyra entered into this affair to persuade Antony to support her son Archelaus in his fight against Ariarathes X for possession of Cappadocia. However, it seems that Antony did not help her son until five years later, so Archelaus did not help until 36 BC. Became the undisputed ruler of Cappadocia.

In connection with the Peruvian War , Octavian attacked Antony's relationship with Glaphyra in a crude, obscene epigram . Allegedly, Antonius' wife Fulvia was very jealous of Glaphyra. In his humiliating poem, Octavian claims that Fulvia asked him to have sex with her, otherwise there would be war.

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  1. ^ Appian , Civil Wars 5, 7, 31; Cassius Dio 49, 32, 3.
  2. Christoph Schäfer : Cleopatra . Darmstadt 2006, p. 122f.
  3. Octavian in Martial , 11, 20, 3–8; on this Clauss, Cleopatra , p. 50.