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Campaspe

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Mistress of Alexander the Great

Lived 400 BC to 360 BC · aged 40
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Campaspe, or Pancaste, was a supposed mistress of Alexander the Great and a prominent citizen of Larissa in Thessaly. No Campaspe appears in the five major sources for the life of Alexander and the story may be apocryphal.

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Campaspe Taking off Her Clothes in Front of Apelles by Order of Alexander, c. 1883 by Auguste Ottin (1811-1890). North façade of the Cour Carrée in the Louvre, Paris.Campaspe Taking off Her Clothes in Front of Apelles by Order of Alexander, c. 1883 by Auguste Ottin (1811-1890). North façade of the Cour Carrée in the Louvre, Paris.Alexander the Great Offering His Concubine Campaspe to the Painter Apelles (Gaetano Gandolfi, c. 1793-97)Alexander the Great Offering His Concubine Campaspe to the Painter Apelles (Gaetano Gandolfi, c. 1793-97)

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Campaspe, or Pancaste, was a supposed mistress of Alexander the Great and a prominent citizen of Larissa in Thessaly. No Campaspe appears in the five major sources for the life of Alexander and the story may be apocryphal. The biographer Robin Lane Fox traces her legend back to the Roman authors Pliny, Lucian of Samosata and Aelian's Varia Historia. Aelian surmised that she initiated the young Alexander in love.

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Lived 400 BC to 360 BC · aged 40
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