Camma
Camma (Template:Langx)<ref>Polyaenus, Stratagems, Book 8, 39</ref> was a Galatian princess and priestess of Artemis whom Plutarch writes about in both On the Bravery of Women and the Eroticus or Amatorius.Template:Sfnp As Plutarch is our only source on Camma, her historicity cannot be independently verified.Template:Sfnp<ref>Henri d’Arbois de Jubainville is cited by Sandra Péré-Noguès (2013) as declaring that the Greeks had invented such stories, though she is not so dismissive.</ref> In both works, Plutarch cites her as an exemplar of fidelity and courage in love.Template:Sfnp
In Plutarch's accounts, Camma was wedded to the tetrarch Sinatus, and became known and admired for her virtue and beauty.<ref name="plut"/>Template:Sfnp Sinatus' rival, another tetrarch named Sinorix, murdered Sinatus and proceeded to woo Camma herself. Rather than submit to Sinorix' advances, Camma took him to a temple of Artemis where she served poison to both herself and him in a libation of either milk and honey<ref name="plut"/> or mead.Template:Sfnp Camma died happily, according to Plutarch, in the knowledge that she had avenged the death of her husband.<ref name="plut">Plutarch. De Mulierum Virtutibus 20, in the Moralia. English translation published online by Bill Thayer.</ref>Template:Sfnp
Plutarch's story of Camma inspired a number of works of later art and literature. Polyaenus briefly reprises Plutarch's tale in his 2nd-century CE Stratagems of War.<ref>Polyaenus, Stratagems VIII.39.1</ref> In the Renaissance, the story of Camma enjoyed considerable popularity, inspiring De re uxoria by Barbaro,Template:Sfnp De institutione feminae christianae by Vives,Template:Sfnp the Libro del cortegiano by Castiglione,Template:Sfnp and Orlando furioso by Ariosto (where Camma is renamed Drusilla).Template:Sfnp Thomas Corneille wrote a play named Camma (1661) about the story of the Galatian princess. The opera Nephté (1789) by Jean-Baptiste Lemoyne uses the story of Camma but moves the setting to Ancient Egypt. Tennyson subsequently wrote the tragedy The Cup (1884), in which Camma is again a Galatian princess. The poem ‘Camma’ by Oscar Wilde has been seen as a hedonistic commentary on Plutarch's Camma.Template:Sfnp