Ancient Greek & Roman

Praxiteles the Sculptor

fl. c. 370 – 330 BC


Praxiteles of Athens, the greatest sculptor of the fourth century BC, made the Cnidian Aphrodite and the Eros of Thespiae. The Anthology ascribes to him a poem spoken in the person of his own Eros; the attribution is a literary fiction.

This archive carries the 1 epigram ascribed to the poet in the fifth volume of W. R. Paton's prose translation (Loeb, 1918): Book XVI: 204.

  1. Book XVI, 204: On the Same

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