Rhodopis (hetaera)

Rhodopis or Rodopis (Greek: Ῥοδῶπις), real name possibly Doricha (Δωρίχα), was a celebrated 6th-century BCE hetaera, of Thracian origin.

[2] 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.

[9] Herodotus takes great pains to show the absurdity of the story, but it persisted, and is related by Pliny the Elder as an unquestioned fact.

[1] Another tale about Rhodopis, related by Strabo and Aelian, makes her a queen of Egypt, and thus renders the likelihood of her being confounded with Nitocris still more probable.

It is said that as Rhodopis was bathing at Naucratis, an eagle took up one of her sandals, flew away with it, and dropped it in the lap of the Egyptian king as he was administering justice at Memphis.