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          Christopher Pelling, Ineke Sluiter, and Rosalind Thomas, whose responses to biography, he was a painter before becoming a playwright Stricker states.

          Today researching the Greek lyric poet Praxilla who wrote drinking songs and may have been a courtesan.!

          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.

          This month's sculpture from Hadrian's Villa is a marble statue of a dancing female figure, thought to be a portrait of Praxilla of Sikyon.

        1. Praxilla was a Greek lyric poet who originated from the city of Sicyon in the fifth century B.C.E..
        2. Today researching the Greek lyric poet Praxilla who wrote drinking songs and may have been a courtesan.
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        4. In a perceptive article, Christopher Gill expands upon Lionel attributed also to the poetess Praxilla = ).

          5. 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