A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology

Smith, William

A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology. William Smith, LLD, ed. 1890

(Γνάθαινα), a celebrated Greek hetaera, of whom some witty sayings are recorded by Athenaeus (xiii. p. 585). She wrote a νόμος συσσιτικός, in the same fashion as νόμοι were commonly written by philosophers. It consisted of 323 lines, and was incorporated by Callimachus in his πίναξ τῶν νόμων.

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