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By Aristotle and Herodotus we are told that Aesop was a slave in Samos; that his slave masters were first a man named Xanthus, and then a man named Iadmon; that he must eventually have been freed, since he argued as an advocate for a wealthy Samian; and that he met his end in the city of Delphi.
Slavery According to Herodotus, she was a fellow- slave of the fable teller Aesop , with whom in one version of her story she had a secret love affair; both of them belonged to Iadmon of Samos . She afterwards became the property of Xanthes, another Samian, who took her to Naucratis in Egypt, during the reign of Amasis II , where she met ...
Herodotus, some five centuries before Strabo, records a popular legend about a possibly-related courtesan named Rhodopis in his Histories, claiming that Rhodopis came from Thrace, and was the slave of Iadmon (Ἰάδμων) of Samos, and a fellow-slave of the story-teller Aesop and that she was taken to Egypt in the time of Pharaoh Amasis (570 ...
The Heraion of Samos was a large sanctuary to the goddess Hera, on the island of Samos, Greece, 6 km southwest of the ancient city of Samos (modern Pythagoreion). It was located in the low, marshy basin of the Imbrasos river, near where it enters the sea.
Aesop's Fables. A detail of the 13th-century Fontana Maggiore in Perugia, Italy, with the fables of The Wolf and the Crane and The Wolf and the Lamb. Aesop's Fables, or the Aesopica, is a collection of fables credited to Aesop, a slave and storyteller who lived in ancient Greece between 620 and 564 BCE. Of varied and unclear origins, the ...
In parts of Greece, pederasty was an acceptable form of homoeroticism that had other, less socially accepted manifestations, such as the sexual use of slaves or being a pornos or hetairos (the male equivalent of a hetaira).
"Let those who feel the heavy brazen hand of fear, bear slavery; freedom needs virtue and daring." -"Lyrika, ode fourth, To Samos" (1826) Andreas Calvos was born in April 1792 on the island of Zacynthos (then ruled by the Venetian Republic ), the elder of the two sons of Ioannes Calvos and Andriane Calvos (née Roucane).
Xanthus, Greek philosopher, master of the slave and fabulist Aesop; Xanthus (historian), mid-5th century BC logographer who wrote a history of Lydia; Xanthos Hadjisoteriou (1920-2003), Greek Cypriot painter and interior designer; Xanthus Pagninius (1470–1541), Dominican, leading philologist and Biblical scholar; Xanthus Russell Smith ...