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Rhodōpē or Rhodōpis, Greek courtesan, said to have been a Thracian and a fellow-slave of Aesop, and to have been taken to Naucratis in Egypt. Aelian relates that one day while Rhodope was bathing, an eagle flew away with one of her slippers and dropped it into the lap of the pharaoh of the day, Psammetichus. The king was struck with the beauty of the slipper, had a search made for the owner, and married her. There was a story (rejected by Herodotus) that she built the third pyramid; Herodotus confuses her with the courtesan Doricha (see SAPPHO).
Rhodope (rŏd'əpē), Bulg. Rodopi Planina, Gr. Rodope, mountain range of the Balkan Peninsula, extending c.200 mi (320 km) from the Struma River, SE Bulgaria, to the lower Maritsa River, NE Greece. It consists of three sections-the Rhodope, Pirin Planina, and Rila Planina-and its highest peak, Musala, rises to 9,596 ft (2,925 m). The rugged range has few passes and has long hindered communications between the upper Maritsa valley and the coastal plain.
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Rhodope
Rhodope may mean:
- Queen Rhodope, a figure of Greek mythology
- Rhodope Mountains, in Bulgaria and Greece
- Rhodope (regional unit), of Greece
- Rhodope (Roman province), a late Roman and early Byzantine province
- 166 Rhodope, an asteroid
- Rhodope (gastropod), a genus of the family Rhodopidae, order Rhodopemorpha, class Gastropoda
- Mylothris rhodope, a Dotted Border butterfly endemic to tropical Africa commonly known as the Rhodope
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