Gnathaena
Γνάθαινα
(Γνάθαινα), a celebrated Greek hetaera, of whom some witty sayings are recorded by Athenaeus (xiii. p. 585). She wrote a νόμος συσσιτικός, in the same fashion as νόμοι were commonly written by philosophers. It consisted of 323 lines, and was incorporated by Callimachus in his πίναξ τῶν νόμων.
From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.