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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 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, supposedly swam nude during the Eleusinia, inspiring Apelles to paint Venus rising from the sea. This hetaira (10[1])legendarily (10[1])escaped impiety charges by baring her breasts before 500 judges (10[1])at the Areopagus. For 10 points, Praxiteles modeled the Aphrodite of Knidos on what wealthy courtesan? ■END■

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