Packet 1: Tossup 6

A 2024 biography by Melissa Funke recounts that this person offered to rebuild Thebes if the Thebans would erect a monument reading “destroyed by Alexander, rebuilt by” this person. Comic poets like Timocles mocked this person’s origins as a Boeotian caper-gatherer. According to Athenaeus’s Deipnosophistae, Euthias’s accusations that this person introduced the new god Isodaites and held drunken mixed-gender gatherings were rebutted by the orator Hypereides. This person, who was nicknamed (*) “toad” for the extreme whiteness of her skin, supposedly swam nude in the sea during the Eleusinia, inspiring Apelles’s Anadyomene painting. (-5[1])This hetaira legendarily escaped impiety charges by baring her breasts before 500 (10[1])judges at the Areopagus. For 10 points, Praxiteles modeled the Aphrodite of Knidos on what wealthy courtesan? ■END■ (0[1])

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