Editing Lamia (section)

===Fine arts===
[[File:Draper-Lamia.jpg|thumb|upright=0.5|''The Lamia'' (1909),{{Efn|Lamia has human legs and a [[snakeskin]] around her waist. There is also a small snake on her right forearm.}} a painting by [[Herbert James Draper]]]]

In a 1909 painting by [[Herbert James Draper]], the Lamia who moodily watches the serpent on her forearm appears to represent a ''[[hetaera]]''. Although the lower body of Draper's Lamia is human, he alludes to her serpentine history by draping a shed snakeskin about her waist. In Renaissance [[emblem]]s, Lamia has the body of a [[Serpent (symbolism)|serpent]] and the breasts and head of a woman, like the image of [[hypocrisy]].{{Citation needed|date=August 2007}}