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A fact from Rhodopis (hetaera) appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 28 January 2008, and was viewed approximately 1,514 times (disclaimer) (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:
Did you know... that, according to Herodotus, Rhodopis was a fellow-slave with the poet Aesop?
The article as written had Rhodopis practicing as a slave-heatera in Egypt until Charaxis freed her. The citation is Herodotus, at the beginning of the paragraph. However Herodotus never refers to Rhodopis working as a slave in Egypt. In the Persian Wars Herodotus says that on her arrival to Egypt she was freed by Charaxis and worked for herself from that point. The link to a page on pimping is thus not relevant, unless a new source be presented to show Rhodopis in fact working for a pimp in Egypt, rather than for herself as the story goes.
I will also adjust the section on the iron spits. It was not ten iron spits she donated, it was one tenth of her income in iron spits--"as many as her tithe would pay for." (Herodotus, Persian Wars II.135).
Jroo222 (talk) 12:30, 17 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]
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