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Encyclopedia Britannica



LAYS

This article appears in Volume V16, Page 84 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: LAP-LEO
LAYS , the name of two
Greek
  courtesans, generally distinguished as follows. (I) The
elder
 , a native of
Corinth
 , born c. 480 B.C., was famous for her greed and hardheartedness, which gained her the nickname of Axine (the axe). Among her lovers were the philosophers Aristippus and
Diogenes
 , and Eubatas (or Aristoteles) of Cyrene, a famous runner. In her old age she became a drunkard. Her grave was shown in the Craneion near
Corinth
 , surmounted by a lioness tearing a ram. (2) The younger, daughter of Timandra the mistress of Alcibiades, born at Hyccara in
Sicily
  c. 420 B.C., taken to Corinth during the Sicilian expedition. The painter Apelles, who saw her drawing water from the fountain of Peirene, was struck by her beauty, and took her as a model. Having followed a handsome Thessalian to his native
land
 , she was slain in the temple of Aphrodite by
women
  who were jealous of her beauty. Many anecdotes are told of a Lads by Athenaeus, Aelian, Pausanias, and she forms the subject of many epigrams in the
Greek
 
Anthology
 ; but, owing to the similarity of names, there is considerable uncertainty to whom they refer. The name itself, like Phryne, was used as a general
term
  for a courtesan.
See F.
Jacobs
 , Vermischte Schriften, iv. (183o).


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