Women / Persons ~ P25278
Women of Miletus
Alternate Names:
- Maids of Miletus
- Milesian Maidens
- Milesian Women
Gender: Female
Life Dates:
Types:
- Anonymous group
- Celibate, chaste or virginal
- Legendary
- Mythical
- Representative of region
Note: Plutarch portrays an apocryphal group of Milesian maidens as dissuaded from suicide by the threat of sexual shame. In addition to inverting the preceding praises of acts such as those planned by the Phocians in chapter 3, the chapter seems designed to align with period-typical mockery of women from Miletus (see treatments of Aspasia) and gives no specific dates or references resembling historical events