Round 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. (-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 in a lost speech. This person, who was nicknamed (*) “toad” for the extreme whiteness of her skin, (-5[1])supposedly swam nude during the Eleusinia, inspiring Apelles to paint Venus rising from the sea. This hetaira legendarily escaped impiety charges by baring her breasts before 500 judges at the Areopagus. For 10 points, Praxiteles modeled the Aphrodite of Knidos on what wealthy courtesan? ■END■ (0[2])

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