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YKARA (Ancient city) SICILY
Celebrated Grecian hetaera, daughter of Timandra, probably born
at Hyccara in Sicily. According to some accounts she was brought to Corinth when
seven years old, having been taken prisoner in the Athenian expedition to Sicily,
and bought by a Corinthian. This story, however, involves numerous difficulties,
and seems to have arisen from a confusion between this Lais and the other woman
of the same name. She was a contemporary and rival of Phryne. She became enamoured
of a Thessalian named Hippolochus, or Hippostratus, and accompanied him to Thessaly,
where, it is said, some Thessalian women, jealous of her beauty, enticed her into
a temple of Aphrodite, and there stoned her to death.
This text is from: Harry Thurston Peck, Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities. Cited Nov 2002 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains interesting hyperlinks
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