Glaphyra (hetaera)

Glaphyra (Greek: Γλαφύρα) was a hetaera,[1] a form of courtesan, who lived in the 1st century BC. Glaphyra was famed and celebrated in antiquity for her beauty, charm and seductiveness.[2] Her marriage to Archelaus the elder of Cappadocia gave her political power. Her later affair with Mark Antony occasioned a vulgar poem from Octavian Caesar.

  1. ^ Syme, Anatolica: studies in Strabo p. 144
  2. ^ Syme, Anatolica: studies in Strabo pp. 144 & 148