Pallake

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.

Pallakai (Ancient Greek: παλλακαί; singular pallake (παλλακή)) was the general name given to concubines in ancient Greece.

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