The Story of Olympius and Alexander

The story is famous of Alexander's mother hiring him a Thessalian courtesan that Thessalies in northern Greece. They feared he might be turning out a girlish invert and even went so far as to procure a beautiful ThessalianCourtesan named Calexenia, I believe it is, to help develop his manly nature. Olympius herself, we are told, frequently begged him to have intercourse with this woman, which does not suggest any great enthusiasm on his part.