She is mentioned in
Boccaccio's
De mulieribus claris and
Montaigne's
Essays. The later Italian politician and writer
Niccolò Machiavelli praised Epicharis's audacity, and also stated that she had been one of Nero's former mistresses.
Daniel Casper von Lohenstein was the first dramatist to produce a drama named after Epicharis, in 1665; and in 1794 the French poet
Gabriel-Marie Legouvé published the spoken play
Épicharis et Néron. In 1829
Thomas Henry Lister published
Epicharis: An Historical Tragedy. Epicharis has also featured as a character in other operas and dramas. Epicharis is one of the
998 mythical, historical or notable women named on the heritage floor of
Judy Chicago's
The Dinner Party art installation (1979). In 1825 botanist
Carl Ludwig Blume named the plant
genus Epicharis after her. ==References==