Alciphron
The most distinguished of the Greek epistolary writers, was, perhaps, a contemporary of Lucian, about A. D. 180. The letters (113 in number) are written by fictitious personages, and the language is distinguished by its purity and elegance. Alcithoe or Alcathoe. Daughter of Minyas, changed, together with her sisters, into bats, for refusing to join the other women of Boeotia in the worship of Dionysus (Bacchus).