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Athenaeus, The Learned Banqueters (Deipnosophistae), Casaubon page 591: Aphrodite rising, and an epigram
Myrtilus names the two masterpieces said to have been modelled on Phryne, and quotes the verses Praxiteles carved on the base of his statue of Eros.
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Myrtilus
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- 591a Aphrodite rising, and an epigram. …painted his Aphrodite Rising from the Sea. And Praxiteles the sculptor, who was in…
- 591b A monument to Greek lust. He gave her a choice of his statues, whether she wanted to take the…
- 591c Two Phrynes and a sifter. …king of the Spartans, and that of Philip son of Amyntas, bearing the inscription…
- 591d Alexander tore it down. …who were with her; the other was called the Thespian. Phryne was very rich,…
- 591e Her real name was Mnesarete. …of Phryne was Gryllion, though he was one of the Areopagites, as Satyrus the…
- 591f Bigger than his mother. …she faced the court for her life (words are lost here), and clasping the…
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