

It’s a story about Phryne, she was courtesan in Greece born around 370 BC, an actual person. We don’t know much about her life other than she was self made and one of the richest women in Greece at the time. She also happened to be very famous.
This version of the story is likely a dramatization after the fact. Where she is brought on trial for impiety by a man known for frivolous trials. She bares herself and beauty is seen as a blessing of the gods and is acquitted. May or may not have actually happened but it’s a good story.
We do know that there was a trial, there is an account by the man who spoke in her defense, Hypereides. We also know she was beautiful and popular enough that she was able to charge very high prices even in old age.
She is also said to be the model for the original Aphrodite of Knidos statue. Which was destroyed but there were of boat load of copies made in antiquity.





Or, hear me out, the word/concept doesn’t translate into English well which is why the difference is hard to articulate in English