Praxilla
Poet of the 5th century; there is very little surviving of her works · Writers
Praxilla, 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.
Praxilla is read about 16 times a day, in 24 languages.
A typical day, 30 days to 3 November 2026
The middle day of the days counted, so one week of news cannot move it. The line under it is the last 147 days, one point a day.
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Media & music
![Marble sculpture of a dancing female figure, sometimes identified as Lysippus' sculpture of Praxilla.[1]](https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/ca/Dancing_female_figure%2C_thought_to_be_a_portrait_of_Praxilla_of_Sikyon_%28a_Greek_lyric_poet%29%2C_from_the_portico_of_the_Triclinium_of_the_Three_Exedras_at_Hadrian%27s_Villa%2C_117_-_138_AD%2C_Palazzo_Massimo_alle_Terme%2C_Rome_%2822573628774%29.jpg/1280px-thumbnail.jpg?utm_source=en.wikipedia.org&utm_campaign=parser&utm_content=thumbnail)
About this person
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.
