Lais of Hyccara

Lais (* in Hykkara, Sicily; † around 340 BC in Thessaly ) was a courtesan of ancient Greece. It should not be confused with the same name and living at about the same time Lais of Corinth.

She was born in Hykkara (now Carini ) in Sicily. The Greek army commander Nicias they abducted to Corinth. Her mother was Timandra, a lover of the Athenian statesman Alcibiades. Demosthenes and the painter Apelles to have belonged to their paying customers. From Demosthenes it should have in vain demanded 10,000 drachmas. She moved to Thessaly, where he was murdered by a group of women who had conspired against them, in a temple of Aphrodite by 340 BC. Her grave is said to have been located on Pinios.