Talk:Xanthe/@comment-38127842-20190213202155/@comment-36277500-20190319193130

Probably out of her deep hatred towards the whole humanity. She despises men because they wronged her (as most of Lena's girls), and women because she considers them as rivals.

She claims that she was "trained in beauty, grace and poetry" since she was little girl. That means she was sold into brothel as a small child. That gives us two possibilities:

But men - no matter how much she despises them - give her money, jewels and influence. And every pretty woman in her sight is a rival who can steal away her prey from her. So she hates women as well.
 * 1) she might have been sold into slavery by her own father out of poverty. Such treason might make her hate men in general.
 * 2) her first name and her skin tone hints foreigner, Grecian origin. So she might be abducted from her homeland by pirates and then sold in Rome by them. Pirates were also males...

She especially depises MC because the latter one's success upstaged hers. Xanthe's hatred is additionally fueled by Arin's enemies like Rufus Glycia for their own reasons - you know, enemy of my enemy...