Who dated Glycera?

Glykera war eine berühmte aus Athen stammende Hetäre der zweiten Hälfte des 4. Jahrhunderts v. Chr.

Nach dem Tod der Pythionike (zwischen 329 v. Chr. und 324 v. Chr.) holte sie Harpalos, der von Alexander dem Großen eingesetzte Verwalter Babylons, nach Tarsos. Hier hielt er Glykera auf Kosten des Staatsschatzes aus. Er ordnete für sie königliche Ehren an, was zu Spott und Unmut bei den Griechen führte. Durch ihre Vermittlung schickte Harpalos Getreide nach Athen, was ihm im Gegenzug das athenische Bürgerrecht einbrachte. Glykera begleitete Harpalos bei dessen Flucht vor dem aus Indien zurückkehrenden Alexander nach Athen. Dort blieb sie, auch nachdem Harpalos die Stadt wieder verlassen musste, und wurde angeblich die Geliebte des Dichters Menander.

Der ansonsten unbekannte Bildhauer Herodotos soll eine Statue von ihr geschaffen haben.

Menander (; Ancient Greek: Μένανδρος, romanized: Ménandros; c. 342/341 – c. 290 BC) was a Greek playwright and the best-known representative of Athenian New Comedy. He wrote 108 comedies and took the prize at the Lenaia festival eight times. His record at the City Dionysia is unknown.

He was one of the most popular writers and most highly admired poets in antiquity, but his work was considered lost before the early Middle Ages. It now survives only in Latin-language adaptations by Terence and Plautus and, in the original Greek, in highly fragmentary form, most of which were discovered on papyrus in Egyptian tombs during the early to mid-20th century. In the 1950s, to the great excitement of Classicists, it was announced that a single play by Menander, Dyskolos, had finally been rediscovered in the Bodmer Papyri intact enough to be performed.

Harpalus (Greek: Ἅρπαλος), son of Machatas, was a Macedonian aristocrat and childhood friend of Alexander the Great in the 4th century BC. Harpalus was repeatedly entrusted with official duties by Alexander and absconded with large sums of money on three occasions. Alexander appointed him treasurer of his empire in Babylon in 330 BC. In 324 BC he fled from Babylon to Athens with a large sum of money. The resulting political controversy in Athens ("the Harpalus Affair") was a contributing factor in the Lamian War.