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Phryne seems to have spent most of her life in Athens. [17] She might have come there with her family following the conquest of Thespiae by Thebes in 373 BC, been born in Athens to Thespian refugees following the Theban conquest, or been brought there as a girl to take part in the sex trade, as was Neaira, another fourth-century hetaira.
The common noun thespian meaning "actor" comes from the legendary first actor named Thespis, and not the city. Both Thespis and Thespiae, however, are derived from the noun θέσπις (théspis, meaning 'divine inspiration'). Demophilus of Thespiae – Commander of the Thespian force at the Battle of Thermopylae. Phryne – a hetaira.
Phryne Before the Areopagus (French: Phryne devant l'Areopage) is an 1861 painting by the French artist Jean-Léon Gérôme. The subject matter is Phryne , an ancient Greek hetaira (courtesan) who was put on trial for impiety .
A supposed relationship between Praxiteles and his beautiful model, the Thespian courtesan Phryne, has inspired speculation and interpretation in works of art ranging from painting to comic opera (Saint-Saëns) to shadow play . Some writers have maintained that there were two sculptors of the name Praxiteles.
In the 2nd century AD, Pausanias mentioned the existence at Thespiae in Boeotia (central Greece) of a group made up of Cupid, Phryne and Aphrodite. [3] The Praxitelean style may be detected in the head's resemblance to that of the Cnidian Aphrodite , a work of Praxiteles known through copies.
Phryne at the Festival of Poseidon in Eleusis or Phryne at the Poseidonia in Eleusis (Russian: Фри́на на пра́зднике Посейдо́на в Элевзи́не) is a very large-scale history painting by the Russian-born Polish painter Henryk Siemiradzki, completed in 1889.
In Greek mythology, Thespia (Ancient Greek: Θέσπια) was the daughter of the river god Asopus and Metope, daughter of Ladon, himself a river god.She was abducted to Thespiae (the city west of Thebes) by Apollo, and the city might have been named after her.
English: Sculptor Praxiteles offering a statue of Cupid (his favorite work) as a gift to Phryne. Date: 1794. Medium: oil on canvas Dimensions: 43.3 x 48.6 cm ...