Biography of praxilla

Greek performer and lyricist, famous endow with her consumption songs. Hatched in Sicyon; flourished cart bce.

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Title: Praxilla of Sicyon
Location: Sicyon, Greece
Born: c. 5th century BCE
Died: c. 5th century BCE
Occupation: Poet
Relationships:

• Mother: Unknown
• Father: Unknown
• Sibling(s): Unknown
• Spouse/Lover(s): Unknown
• Children: Unknown

Biography:

Praxilla is recognized as being a 5^th Century poet from Sicyon and is most noted for her drinking and civic ritual songs (Hunter , 81 & Cazzatio , ). She was a contemporary of Telesilla and other women poets such as Cleobulina and Crates, the comedy-writer (Hunter , 81).

Much of her work survives today through extant fragments quoted by writers such as Zenobius or Hephaestion in their own works or mentioned in annotations left by ancient writers on other works (Hunter , 81). As such, only 8 fragments of hers survive, most of which contain a ritual context (Cazzatio , ). Many of these are hymns and dithyrambs and scholars continue to debate if her works qualify Praxilla as a skolia or paroinia poetess (Cazzatio , & ). 

One such fragment includes the Hymn to Adonis which itself is fragmented. This hymn tells of Adonis being asked by the inhabitants of Hades to name the most beautiful things he left behind in the world of the living. These survive today only because Zenobius quoted them and criticized Ado

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Praxilla

Greek lyric poet of the 5th century BC

Praxilla (Ancient Greek: Πράξιλλα), was a Greek lyric poet of the 5th century BC from Sicyon on the Gulf of Corinth. Five quotations attributed to Praxilla and three paraphrases from her poems survive. The surviving fragments attributed to her come from both religious choral lyric and drinking songs (skolia); the three paraphrases are all versions of myths. Various social contexts have been suggested for Praxilla based on this range of surviving works. These include that Praxilla was a hetaira (courtesan), or that she was a professional musician. Alternatively, the apparent implausibility of a respectable Greek woman writing drinking songs has been explained by suggesting that her poetry was in fact composed by two different authors, or that the drinking songs derive from a non-elite literary tradition rather than being authored by a single writer.

Praxilla was apparently well-known in antiquity: she was sculpted in bronze by Lysippus and parodied by Aristophanes. In the modern world, she has been referenced in artworks by Cy Twombly and Judy Chicago, and one of her poems was adapted by the Irish poet Michael Longley.

Life

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Praxilla was from Sicyon on the Gulf of us dates her floruit to / BC (the second year