Rhodōpē
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).





