A Biographical Dictionary of the Celebrated Women of Every Age and Country/Agalis

by Mary Matilda Betham

AGALIS, or AGATHIS,

A Woman of the island of Corfu, whose knowledge is highly spoken of by ancient authors. She excelled principally in rhetoric and grammar. It is said she composed some treatises on these subjects. Meursius, in his work on Grecian games, attributes the invention of a play at ball to her.

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