A Biographical Dictionary of the Celebrated Women of Every Age and Country/Rhodope
RHODOPE, a celebrated Courtezan, cotemporary with Sappho, whose Brother purchased her when sold for a Slave, and was extravagantly in love with her.
Is reported to have been a fellow slave with the celebrated Æsop, and to have built one of the pyramids of Egypt. As she was once bathing in the Nile (for she was a native of Naucrates, a city of Egypt) an eagle snatched one of her slippers out of the hands of her waiting-woman, and carrying it to Memphis, where the king sat administering justice in a public place of the city, dropped it in his lap. The king was surprized at the novelty of this incident, and being smitten with the beauty of the slipper, immediately dispatched messengers throughout the country, with orders to bring to him the woman with whom they should find the fellow of that slipper: Rhodope being found, was conducted to the king, and by him created queen of Egypt.
Biographia Classica.