Athenais (seer)

Athenais by John William Godward, 1908.

Athenais (Ἀθηναΐς) was a prophetess from Erythrae in Ionia, Asia Minor. She lived at the time of Alexander the Great, and told Alexander of his allegedly divine descent, according to Strabo.

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