Mosaic from Antioch depicting a scene from the play Perikeiromene. The woman to the left is identified as Glykera, the pallake of the man in the middle, Polemon. The man to the right is a household slave, Sosias.
Pallakae or pallakai (Ancient Greek: παλλακαί; singular pallake (παλλακή)) was the general name given to a concubine in ancient Greece.[1][2]
^Kaffarnik, Julia, ed. (2012). "Pallake". The Encyclopedia of Ancient History. Wiley. doi:10.1002/9781444338386.wbeah22216. ISBN 9781444338386.
^Hartmann, Elke (2006). "Pallake". Brill's New Pauly.
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