Qui va sortir amb Làmia (cortesana)?

Làmia (Λάμια) fou una famosa cortesana atenenca, filla de Cleanor. Va començar la seva carrera com a cantant en la que va obtenir un notable èxit, però va deixar la professió per fer d'hetera (prostituta).

Per circumstàncies desconegudes era a bord d'una nau de la flota de Ptolemeu I Sòter a la gran batalla naval de Salamina del 306 aC i va caure en mans de Demetri Poliorcetes, sobre el que aviat va obtenir una gran influència. La seva relació amb el gran soldat va durar uns quants anys tot i que segons sembla no era massa maca, però si molt hàbil sexualment i exercia una gran atracció en Demetri. Es va fer notar per alguns gran banquets que va oferir al seu amant.

Els atenencs, per complaure a Demetri, van erigir un temple a Làmia (Temple de Làmia Afrodita) i els tebans van seguir el seu exemple. Va tenir una filla de Demetri (segons Ateneu) que es va dir Fila. Diògenes Laerci esmenta que Demetri de Falèron també va viure amb una dona anomenada Làmia que diu que era atenenca i de noble naixement i que es desconeix si és la mateixa persona.

Demetrius I Poliorcetes (; Greek: Δημήτριος Πολιορκητής, Dēmḗtrios Poliorkētḗs, lit. 'the Besieger of Cities'; 337 – 283 BC) was a Macedonian Greek nobleman and military leader who became king of Asia between 306 and 301 BC, and king of Macedon between 294 and 288 BC. A member of the Antigonid dynasty, he was the son of its founder, Antigonus I Monophthalmus, and his wife Stratonice, as well as the first member of the family to rule Macedon in Hellenistic Greece.

In 307 BC, Demetrius successfully ousted Cassander's governor of Athens and after defeating Ptolemy I at the Battle of Salamis (306 BC) he gave his father the title of basileus ("king") over a land spanning from the Aegean Sea to the Middle East. He acquired the title Poliorcetes ("the besieger") after the unsuccessful siege of Rhodes in 305. While Antigonus I and Demetrius planned a revival of the Hellenic League with themselves as dual hegemons, a coalition of the diadochi; Cassander, Seleucus I, Ptolemy I, and Lysimachus defeated the two at the Battle of Ipsus in 301 BC, in which Antigonus I was killed and the Asian territory of his empire was lost. In 294, Demetrius managed to successfully seize control of Athens and establish himself as king of Macedon. He ruled until 288 when he was eventually driven out by Pyrrhus and Lysimachus and later surrendered to Seleucus I in Cilicia, dying there in 283. After a long period of instability, Demetrius's son, Antigonus II Gonatas, managed to solidify the dynasty in the kingdom and establish its hegemony over much of Hellenistic Greece.

Demetrius was particularly involved in innovations in poliorcetics, and although not all of his sieges were successful—such as the siege of Rhodes—he left his mark on the history of global siege warfare. This was notably through the extensive use of siege engines, the establishment of effective logistical procedures to support sieges on a much larger scale than previously, the widespread use of amphibious warfare and finally the very quick pace of execution of his sieges. Demetrius also used his skills as a military architect to fortify cities with defensive architectural innovations, such as, notably, Athens, Sicyon or Corinth. He can be considered one of the main Epigoni, the heirs of the Diadochi.