Campaspe
Campaspe (
According to tradition, she was painted by
Legacy
Campaspe became a generic poetical synonym for a man's mistress; The English University wit and poet John Lyly (1553–1606), who produced his comedy Campaspe in 1584, also wrote:
Cupid and my Campaspe play'd
At cards for kisses—Cupid paid:
He stakes his quiver, bow and arrows,
His mother's doves, and team of sparrows;
Loses them too; then down he throws
The coral of his lip, the rose
Growing on's cheek (but none knows how);
With these, the crystal of his brow,
And then the dimple of his chin:
All these did my Campaspe win.
At last he set her both his eyes,
She won, and Cupid blind did rise.
O Love! has she done this to thee?
What shall (alas!) become of me?
The Spanish playwright Pedro Calderón de la Barca wrote his own play on the Campaspe story, Darlo todo y no dar nada (1651).
In 1819, the painting
The Campaspe River in Victoria, Australia, the Campaspe River in Queensland, Australia and the Shire of Campaspe are named after her.[6]
References
- ^ Her Thessalian name is sometimes reported in Atticized form as Pancaste.
- ^ John J. Popovic, "Apelles, the greatest painter of Antiquity" Source quotes from Natural History 35.79–97.
- ^ Fox, Alexander the Great, 1973:50.
- ^ Peck (1898).
- ^ "Alexander Ceding Campaspe to Apelles". www.getty.edu. Getty. Retrieved 24 January 2023.
- ^ "The romance of Australian place names". The Australian Women's Weekly. 27 May 1964. p. 59. Retrieved 14 October 2013 – via National Library of Australia.
Sources
- Pothos.org: Alexander's lovers
- Harry Thurston Peck, Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, 1898 "Campaspe"
- John Lyly: "Cupid and my Campaspe..."
- John Lyly: A Moste Excellent Comedie of Alexander, Campaspe, and Diogenes 1584
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