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Headword: *xrusomallw/
Adler number: chi,577
Translated headword: Chrysomallo
Vetting Status: high
Translation:

Name of a dancing-girl, subsequently a courtesan. She flourished in the time of Justinian and Theodora.

Greek Original:

*xrusomallw/: o)/noma o)rxhstri/dos, ei)=ta e(tai/ras. h)/kmazen e)pi\ *)ioustinianou= kai\ *qeodw/ras.

Note:

Literally Golden-Fleece (cf. delta 250, mu 878), or Goldilocks. Mentioned in Procopius, Secret History 17.33-34 (web address 1); cf. Kaldellis (79).

Reference:

A. Kaldellis, ed. and trans., Prokopios: The Secret History, (Indianapolis 2010)

Associated internet address:
Web address 1
Keywords: biography; chronology; gender and sexuality; historiography; history; women
Translated by: David Whitehead on 26 November 2001@04:59:24.
Vetted by:

David Whitehead (added keyword) on 6 September 2002@04:23:21.
William Hutton (set status) on 14 July 2003@04:19:51.
David Whitehead (augmented note) on 14 July 2003@05:30:41.
David Whitehead on 25 July 2011@07:04:07.
David Whitehead on 2 February 2016@04:00:00.
Ronald Allen (added bibliography and link) on 14 May 2024@11:15:06.

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