{"id":16178,"date":"2015-12-21T14:51:46","date_gmt":"2015-12-21T19:51:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=16178"},"modified":"2015-12-21T18:05:30","modified_gmt":"2015-12-21T23:05:30","slug":"remembering-melisto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=16178","title":{"rendered":"remembering Melisto"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-16179 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/images\/Mellisto.png\" alt=\"Mellisto\" width=\"302\" height=\"499\" srcset=\"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/images\/Mellisto.png 302w, https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/images\/Mellisto-182x300.png 182w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 302px) 100vw, 302px\" \/>This is\u00a0Melisto, a daughter of Ktesikrates from <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sounion\">Sounion<\/a>, which is now a day-trip from Athens. I think her\u00a0name means &#8220;Melody,&#8221; unless it&#8217;s related to the word for &#8220;honey.&#8221;*\u00a0Melisto lived for a few years (six, perhaps?)\u00a0around 340 BCE. The Macedonian King Phillip II was dominating Greece at the time, and his son Alexander was soon to conquer a vast empire. Ktesikrates and perhaps other members of the\u00a0family were sad enough to lose Melisto\u00a0that they had a very handsome marble stele carved for her, with her name at the top. She is showing a live bird to her fluffy lapdog and smiling at the results. The figure in her other hand may be a votive object rather than a doll, according to the museum label. A nice\u00a0little classical building shelters her and announces her name to us,\u00a02,350 years later, in Cambridge, MA.<\/p>\n<p>*Is it from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.perseus.tufts.edu\/hopper\/morph?l=me%2Flisma&amp;la=greek&amp;can=me%2Flisma0\">melisma<\/a> (song) or <a class=\"text\" href=\"http:\/\/www.perseus.tufts.edu\/hopper\/morph?l=meli%2Fsseios&amp;la=greek&amp;can=meli%2Fsseios0&amp;prior=melissai=os\">melisseios <\/a>(honey)?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is\u00a0Melisto, a daughter of Ktesikrates from Sounion, which is now a day-trip from Athens. I think her\u00a0name means &#8220;Melody,&#8221; unless it&#8217;s related to the word for &#8220;honey.&#8221;*\u00a0Melisto lived for a few years (six, perhaps?)\u00a0around 340 BCE. The Macedonian King Phillip II was dominating Greece at the time, and his son Alexander was soon to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16179,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fine-arts"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16178","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16178"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16178\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16184,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16178\/revisions\/16184"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/16179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}