Sinope
historical figure · 2 works · 2 mentions · 2 anchored passages
also in the atlas: Sinope the place
Sinopê · the courtesan Sinop
in the texts
Against Androtion
A woman identified as a prostitute and as someone from whom Androtion seized property without tax debt.
And then, on the top of all this, as though he could do whatever he liked, he distrained upon Sinope and Phanostrate, who were prostitutes certainly, but owed no property-tax.
Theomnestus and Apollodorus Against Neaera
A courtesan whose sacrificial victim, brought to the Eleusinian feast of the harvest, Archias improperly sacrificed, leading to his conviction for impiety.
Among the charges brought against him was, that at the feast of the harvest he sacrificed on the altar in the court at Eleusis a victim brought by the courtesan Sinop, although it was not lawful to offer victims on that day, and the sacrifice was not his to perform, but the priestess’.