e/Lamia of Athens

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has gloss	eng: For other persons named Lamia, see Lamia Lamia of Athens was a celebrated courtesan, daughter of Cleanor. She commenced her career as a flute-player on the stage, in which profession she attained considerable celebrity, but afterwards abandoned it for that of a hetaera. We know not by what accident she found herself on board of the fleet of Ptolemy I at the naval battle of Salamis in Cyprus (306 BC) , but it was on that occasion that she fell into the hands of the young Demetrius Poliorcetes, over whom she quickly obtained the most unbounded influence. Though then already past her prime, she so completely captivated the young prince, that her sway continued unbroken for many years, notwithstanding the numerous rivals with whom she had to contend. It was apparently not so much to her beauty as to her wit and talents that she owed her power: the latter were celebrated by the comic writers as well as the historians of the period, and many anecdotes concerning her have been transmitted to us by Plutarch and Athenaeus.
lexicalization	eng: Lamia of Athens
instance of	c/Ancient Athenian women