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Campaspe (; Greek: Καμπάσπη, Kampaspē), or Pancaste (; Greek: Παγκάστη, Pankastē; also Pakate), was a supposed mistress of Alexander the Great and a prominent citizen of Larissa in Thessaly. No Campaspe appears in the five major sources for the life of Alexander and the story may be apocryphal. The biographer Robin Lane Fox traces her legend back to the Roman authors Pliny (Natural History), Lucian of Samosata and Aelian's Varia Historia. Aelian surmised that she initiated the young Alexander in love.

According to tradition, she was painted by Apelles, who had the reputation in antiquity for being the greatest of painters. The episode occasioned an apocryphal exchange that was reported in Pliny's Natural History: "Seeing the beauty of the nude portrait, Alexander saw that the artist appreciated Campaspe (and loved her) more than he. And so Alexander kept the portrait, but presented Campaspe to Apelles." Fox describes this bequest as "the most generous gift of any patron and one which would remain a model for patronage and painters on through the Renaissance." Apelles also used Campaspe as a model for his most celebrated painting of Aphrodite "rising out of the sea", the iconic Venus Anadyomene, "wringing her hair, and the falling drops of water formed a transparent silver veil around her form".

Alexandru cel Mare (în greacă Μέγας Αλέξανδρος, Megas Alexandros, n. 20 iulie 356 î.Hr., Pella, Macedonia Antică – d. 10 iunie 323 î.Hr., Babilon, Macedonian Empire^⁠(d)), cunoscut și sub numele de Alexandru Macedon, Alexandru al III-lea al Macedoniei sau Alexandros III Philippou Makedonon, rege al Macedoniei (336 î.Hr.-323 î.Hr.), a fost unul dintre primii mari strategi și conducători militari din istorie. Cuceririle sale spectaculoase i-au făcut pe macedoneni stăpâni ai Orientului Apropiat. La moartea sa, la vârsta de 32 de ani, Alexandru era stăpânul celui mai mare imperiu cucerit vreodată. Alexandru cel Mare a contribuit substanțial la răspândirea civilizației elenistice în întreaga lume.