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Sappho, Phaon, and Cupid. Jacques-Louis David, 1809. In Greek mythology, Phaon (Ancient Greek: Φάων; gen.: Φάωνος) was a mythical boatman of Mytilene in Lesbos. He was old and ugly when Aphrodite came to his boat. She put on the guise of a crone. Phaon ferried her over to Asia Minor and accepted no payment for doing so. In return, she ...
Sappho and Phaon is an 1809 neoclassical painting by the French painter Jacques-Louis David of Cupid, Sappho and her lover Phaon. It was commissioned by Prince Nikolai Yusupov for his Moika Palace and is now the only painting by David in the Hermitage Museum in Saint Petersburg .
Phaon was an imperial freedman and confidant of the Roman emperor Nero. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] He, with Epaphroditus , Neophytus and Sporus , took Nero to his own villa in the suburban area of Rome where the emperor would commit suicide subsequently.
Phaon is a boatman from Greek mythology, lover of Sappho. Phaon may also refer to: Phaon (freedman) (fl. 1st century), a confidant of Roman emperor Nero; Phaon (fiction), a character in The Faerie Queene; Phaon, a genus of damselfly; Phyciodes phaon, or phaon crescent, a species of butterfly; USS Phaon (ARB-3)
According to legend, she killed herself by leaping from the Leucadian cliffs due to her unrequited love for the ferryman Phaon. Sappho was a prolific poet, probably composing around 10,000 lines. She was best-known in antiquity for her love poetry; other themes in the surviving fragments of her work include family and religion.
Mimoides phaon, the red-sided swallowtail or variable swallowtail, is a species of butterfly in the family Papilionidae. It is native to the Americas. Description
Sapho and Phao is known to have been performed at Court before Queen Elizabeth, probably on 3 March 1584; it was also staged at the first Blackfriars Theatre.In these respects it resembles Campaspe, Lyly's other early play; and like Campaspe, sources conflict on the identity of the acting company that performed the work.
Phaon is a small genus of damselflies belonging to the family Calopterygidae. They occur in central and southern Africa and Madagascar. They occur in central and southern Africa and Madagascar. The genus contains three species: [ 1 ]