Talk:Rhodopis (hetaera)

Narrative of Rhodopis in Herodotus
The article as written had Rhodopis practicing as a slave-heatera in Egypt until Charaxis freed her. The citation is Herodotus, at the beginning of the paragraph. However Herodotus never refers to Rhodopis working as a slave in Egypt. In the Persian Wars Herodotus says that on her arrival to Egypt she was freed by Charaxis and worked for herself from that point. The link to a page on pimping is thus not relevant, unless a new source be presented to show Rhodopis in fact working for a pimp in Egypt, rather than for herself as the story goes.

I will also adjust the section on the iron spits. It was not ten iron spits she donated, it was one tenth of her income in iron spits--"as many as her tithe would pay for." (Herodotus, Persian Wars II.135). Jroo222 (talk) 12:30, 17 May 2016 (UTC)