[2] Their myth is attested in two late sources; Leucippe and Clitophon, a Greek second-century AD romance novel by Achilles Tatius, and the Byzantine Drosilla and Charikles novel by Niketas Eugenianos, written in the twelfth century.
[3][4] One day that Artemis was not around, Aphrodite contrived to make the game they were playing run in the same direction, and after convincing her bow-bearing son Eros that Rhodopis and Euthynicus's chaste lifestyle was a grave insult to both him and her as deities of love and desire, commanded him to strike them both with his love-inducing arrows.
[6] For that reason, any young woman suspected of impurity was made to step into the fountain thereafter, as a testing place; if virgin as claimed, the water would only cover up to her knees, but if not it would come up all the way to her neck.
[13] The element of the spring Rhodopis was transformed into being used as a testing place of sexual innocence has similarities with another ancient myth Tatius recorded, that of Syrinx.
[3][15] The myth has no known antecedent in surviving ancient Greek or Roman literature, however in a calyx-crater from circa 340-330 BC attributed to the Darius Painter Rhodopis is identified (as Rhodope) among several other figures, among them the intimidating presence of Artemis and Aphrodite, and even Hippolytus.