You guys are such good guessers and history buffs! You've just come up with a fantastic list of great women and potential future dolls for me to make!
Below is a short list of Candidates named in the first round. The new mystery doll is one of them! You just have to guess who. Remember the criteria - this woman lived in 4th century BC Greece and was not a deity, neither a royalty, nor a myth. And these are her feet. Go!
The Candidates named so far are in order of vote majority:
Phryne - hetaira (courtesan), artists' muse. 4th c. BC Greece.
4 votes
Thais - hetaira, wife of king Ptolemy. 4th c. BC Greece.
3 votes
Hypatia- mathematician, academic, professor. 4th c. AD Greece.
3 votes
Cassandra - Trojan princess, oracle of Apollo. 13th c. BC Troy.
3 votes
Sappo - great lyric poetess, an intellectual. 7th c. BC Greece.
3 votes
Agnodice- 1st female physician, midwife, gynecologist. 4th c. BC
2 votes.
Aspasia - hetaira, an intellectual, socialite. 5th c. BC Greece.
2 votes
Cyniska-1st woman Olympic champion, Spartan princess. 5th, BC
2 votes
Penelope - queen, wife of Odysseus, mythological Greek character.
Oracle of Delphi - an order of Apollo priestesses. 8th c.BC-4th c.AD
Pythias - wife of Aristotle. 4th c. BC Greece
Rhodophis- ex-slave, hetaira, queen, original Cinderella 6th c. BC Greece
Archeanassa - hetaira, companion of Plato. 5th c. BC Greece
Gerpilise - I can not find anything about this name. Who is this?
Lais of Hyccara - hetaira, socialite. 4th c. BC Greece
Lenaia - Maenads, female worshipers of Dionysos. 5th-2nd c. BC Greece
Lysistrata - peace activist, fictional character 4th c. BC Greece
Myrrhine - wife of Kinesias, peace activist, fictional character. 4th c. BC
Ariadne - Cretan princess, mistress of the Labyrinth, mythological figure.
Roxana - Iranian princess, wife of Alexander the great. Persia. 4th c. BC
Artemisia - female navy commander of king Xerxes. Persia. 5th c. BC
Pandora - mythological First human, all-giver, unleasher of all evil.
There, I hope these clues will help narrow it down a bit.
So, who do you think these pretty feet belong to?