Lais
historical figure · 2 works · 3 mentions · 4 anchored passages
the Corinthian courtesan
in the texts
Stromata
Corinthian courtesan associated with Aristippus of Cyrene.
Reproached, at any rate, for continually consorting with the Corinthian courtesan, he said:
And Aristotle of Cyrene alone overlooked Lais, who was in love with him.
Having sworn to the courtesan that he would take her away to his homeland if she would help him in something against his rivals, when he had accomplished it, gracefully fulfilling his oath, he had a most lifelike image of her painted and set it up at Cyrene—as Ister relates in his work On the Peculiarities of Contests.
Apologeticum
Famous Greek courtesan invoked as an ironic comparison.
But when you adore Larentina, a public harlot — would it were at least Lais or Phryne — among the Junos and Cereses and Dianas;