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And she was the perfect combination of beauty, brains, and wittiness.
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The orator Hypereides tore off her clothes in the middle of the courtroom, revealing her naked, beautiful breasts and roared in indignation.
“O respected judges, only the gods could sculpt such a perfect body. Killing her is a blatant disrespect to the gods. How can you condemn such a woman who is beautiful enough to stand in for goddess Aphrodite herself? “
Hypereides’s pleas seem to have worked. The male jury quickly acquitted her as she walked out the court triumphant.
The woman in question was Phryne (Greek for “toad”). She was the most successful and sought-after courtesan in ancient Greece. Phryne’s beauty was the subject of inspiration of many famous Greek writers including Athenaeus who elevated her to the status of a goddess in his work Deipnosophists.
And Phryne was much more than a dumb beauty. She was the perfect combination of beauty, brains, and wittiness; a compelling concoction very rarely found in women of those times./.../
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