Campaspe

The English writer John Lyly used the story of Campaspe and Apelles for his 1584 comedy Campaspe, which inaugurated the golden period of the Elizabethan theatre. The Spanish playwright Pedro Calderón de la Barca wrote his own play on the Campaspe story, Darlo todo y no dar nada (1651). In 1819, the painting Generosity of Alexander by Jérôme-Martin Langlois depicted the scene where Alexander the Great gifted Campaspe to Apelles. The Campaspe River in Victoria, Australia, the Campaspe River in Queensland, Australia and the Shire of Campaspe are named after her. ==Gallery==