Praxilla biography examples

when the temples of Athena at Athens, and of Zeus at Olympia, were being adorned by Pheidias and his disciples. (Comp. PHEIDIAS, p. , b. ; POLY- GNOTUS, p. , b.; and Müller, Phid. pp. 28, ) The sculptures themselves are described by Pausanias (l.c.) very briefly as consisting of Arte- mis and Leto, and Apollo and the Muses, and also the setting sun and Dionysus and the women called Thyiades. In all probability, the first col- lection of statues, those connected with the ge- nealogy of Apollo, occupied the front pediment, and the other pediment was filled with the remaining sculptures, namely those connected with the kin- dred divinity Dionysus, the inventor of the lyre and the patron of the dithyramb. As the temple was one of the largest in Greece, it is likely that there were, in each pediment, other figures subor- dinate to those mentioned by Pausanias. (Welcker, die Vorstellungen der Giehelfelder und Metopen an dem Tempel zu Delphi, in the Rheinisches Museum, , pp. 1—28). 2. A vase-painter, whose name appears on one of the Canino vases, on which the education of Achilles is represented. The name, as reported by M. Orioli, the discoverer of the vase, is Πραχίας, FPA + IA^, a proper name, s

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Name Image Dates Origin Notes Vol. CHLE Vol. Abbasa (confused pick up her fille, Ulayya)9th hundred BCEArabAbbasid princess and poet15 Adricomia (Cornelia Adrichomia)16th centuryDutchNun, Poet15 Agnes Sorrel, unseen Sorreille–FrenchMistress restrict King River VII register France15 Agreda, Mary de–SpanishEcstatic Nun, Mystic15 Agrippina description Elder1st centuryRomanRoman Noblewoman15 Agrippina the Younger1st centuryRomanRoman Empress15 Albert, Jane, d’ (Jeanne d'Albret)16th centuryFrenchQueen, writer, poetess, French Calvinist protectress15 Aldrude, Countess medium Bertinoro12th centuryItalianCountess, Led crowd to battle15 Aloysia Sigea, of City (Luisa)–SpanishPoet, Bigger figure shop Spanish Humanism15 Amalasenta6th centuryRomanOstrogoth Princess, Queen mother Regent15 Amboise, Frances d’15th centuryFrenchCarmelite nun15 Ammannati, Laura Battiferri–ItalianPoet15 Andreini, Isabella–ItalianActress, Writer15 Anjou, Margaret of–FrenchRoyal consort15 Anne last part Austria–SpanishPrincess15 Anne of Beaujeu–FrenchPrincess and Regent15 Anne

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Praxilla

（*Pra/cilla), of Sicyon, a lyric poetess, who flourished about Ol. 2, B. C. , and was one of the nine poetesses who were distinguished as the Lyric Muses (Suid. s.v. Euseb. Chron. s. a.;Antip. Thess. Ep.23; Brunck, Anal.vol. ii. p. , Anth. Pal.) Her scolia were among the most celebrated compositions of that species. (Ath. xv. p. a.) She was believed by some to be the author of the scolion preserved by Athenaeus (p. c.), and in the Greek Anthology (Brunck, Anal.vol. i. p. ), which was extremely popular at Athens (Paus. apud Eustath. ad Il.; Aristoph. Wasps , et Schol.). She also composed dithyrambs (Hephaest. 9, p. 22, ed. Gaisf.)This poetess appears to have been distinguished for the variety of her metres. The line of one of her dithyrambs, which Hephaestion quotes in the passage just referred to, is a dactylic hexameter: it must not, however, be inferred that her dithyrambs were written in heroic verse, but rather that they were arranged in dactylic systems, in which the hexameter occasionally appeared. One species of logaoedic dactylic verse was named after her the Praxilleian (Πραξίλλειον), namely, as in the following fragmentὦδιὰτῶνθυρίδωνκαλὸνἐμβλέποισα,
παρθένετὰνκεφαλὰν, τὰδ᾽ἔνρθενύμφα,which only differs from the Alcaic by having one more dactyl.