Praxilla

(Greek: Πράξιλλα; fl. 451 BC) was a Greek lyric poetess of the 5th century BC from on the . Five quotations and three paraphrases from her poems survive. The surviving fragments of her work come from both religious choral lyric and drinking songs ('); the three paraphrases are all versions of myths. Various social contexts have been suggested for Praxilla based on this range of surviving works, including that her poetry was in fact composed by two different authors; that she was an ' (courtesan)

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"Κάλλιστον μὲν ἐγὼ λείπω φάος ἠελίοιο, δεύτερον ἄστρα φαεινὰ σεληναίης τε πρόσωπον ἠδὲ καὶ ὡραίους σικύους καὶ μῆλα καὶ ὄγχνας·"

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"Ὦ διὰ τᾶς θυρίδος καλὸν ἐμβλέποισα, παρθένε τὰν κεφαλὰν, τὰ δ᾿ ἔνερθε νύμφα."

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"Ὑπὸ παντὶ λίθῳ σκορπίον, ὦ ἑταῖρε, φυλάσσεο."

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"Second year of the 82nd Olympiad (451 BC), flourished Crates the comedy-writer, Telesilla, Praxilla, and Cleobulina."

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"Praxilla of Sicyon, too, was admired for the drinking-songs she wrote."

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"Praxilla was portrayed in bronze by Lysippus, although she spoke nonsense in her poetry."

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"Sillier than Praxilla’s Adonis."

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