Procne's beautiful sister who was raped by Tereus, Procne's husband.
Beautiful princess who was forbidden to look at the face of her handsome young lover who was really Cupid.
Roman goddess of love and beauty whose name today designates 'a very beautiful and charming woman.'
Wife of Akhenaten, whose name means 'a beautiful woman has come'.
One of the two most famous courtesans in Ancient Greece before the Hellenistic period, she was the mistress of the sculptor Praxiteles and modeled for his sculpture of Aphrodite.
King David lusted after her, after seeing her naked in a bath, and made her pregnant; David had her husband Uriah killed in battle so he could marry the widow.
The seductress agreed to perform a dance and in return, demanded the head of John the Baptist.
A model of Roman womanly virtue, a one-man woman, a perfect mother, wife of Tiberius Sempronius Gracchus, daughter, and attractive.
After a number of failed marriages, she entered into an incestuous relationship with her brother King Herod Agrippa II; during the First Jewish-Roman War, she began a love affair with the future emperor Titus Flavius Vespasianus.
Her beauty was so renown, that the parliament of Vaishali ordered her into prostitution, to keep their democracy safe from competing suitors of hers; another invading king withdrew at her request, after having fallen in love with her.
Usually considered a great beauty as her successive conquests of two rivals to the Roman throne attest, however, Blaise Pascal contends that '[her] nose, had it been shorter, the whole face of the world would have been changed.'
Her affair divided the Knights of the Round Table and weakened Arthur's kingdom; her lover ended his days as a lowly hermit and she became a nun at Amesbury where she died.
Her beauty was such that her husband put up with her continual adultery (not being an innocent himself) only casting her aside when she failed to produce an heir.