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 (15[1])by Alexander, rebuilt by” this person. (-5[1])Comic poets like Timocles mocked this person’s origin as a Boeotian (“bee-OH-shun”) caper-gatherer. According to Athenaeus, Euthias’s accusations that this person introduced the new god Isodaites and held drunken mixed-gender gatherings were rebutted by the orator Hypereides (-5[1])in a lost speech. This person, who was nicknamed (*) “toad” for the extreme whiteness of her skin, (-5[2])supposedly (10[2])swam nude (10[1])during the Eleusinia, (-5[1])inspiring Apelles to paint Venus rising from the sea. (10[2])This (10[1])hetaira (10[4]-5[1])legendarily (10[1])escaped (-5[2])impiety charges (-5[2])by baring her breasts (10[4])before 500 (10[1])judges (10[1])at the (10[1])Areopagus. (-5[1])For 10 points, Praxiteles (10[1])modeled (10[1])the Aphrodite of Knidos on what wealthy courtesan? (10[4])■END■ (10[4]0[7])

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