Lais from Hykkara

Lais ( Greek Λαίς Laís ; * in Hykkara , Sicily ; † around 340 BC in Thessaly ) was a hetaera of ancient Greece . It should not be confused with the Lais from Corinth of the same name who lived around the same time .

She was born in Hykkara (now Carini ) in Sicily . The Greek general Nicias dragged them off to Corinth . Her mother was Timandra , a lover of the Athenian statesman Alkibiades . Demosthenes and the painter Apelles are said to have been among their paying customers. She is said to have asked Demosthenes 10,000 drachmas in vain . She moved to Thessaly and was there by a group of women who had conspired against her in a temple of Aphrodite around 340 BC. Murdered BC. Her grave is said to have been on Pinios .

literature

• Yvonne Joeres: Laïs 2. In: Peter von Möllendorff , Annette Simonis, Linda Simonis (eds.): Historical figures of antiquity. Reception in literature, art and music (= Der Neue Pauly . Supplements. Volume 8). Metzler, Stuttgart / Weimar 2013, ISBN 978-3-476-02468-8 , Sp. 603-608.
• Hans Volkmann : Lais 2. In: The Little Pauly (KlP). Volume 3, Stuttgart 1969, column 457.
• Maria Ypsilanti: Lais and Her Mirror. In: Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies. Volume 49, 2006, pp. 193–213, here pp. 198–200 (to differentiate between hetaerae with the same name; online ).