Women / Persons ~ P08275
The Wife of Candaules
Alternate Names:
- Nyssia
Gender: Female
Life Dates: ca. 735 - 710 BCE
Types:
- Beauty, celebrated
- celibate, chaste or virginal
- Murderess
- Royalty
- Victim of injustice
Note: King wants his friend to see her naked. She finds out and offers the friend the choice between death and murder of his king.