Phanocles
Phanocles was a Greek elegiac poet who probably flourished about the time of Alexander the Great. His extant fragments show resemblances in style and language to Philitas of Cos, Callimachus and Hermesianax. He was the author of a poem on pederasty, entitled Loves or Beautiful Boys.
Phanocles
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- 300
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- poet · writer
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- Ancient Greek
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Phanocles was a Greek elegiac poet who probably flourished about the time of Alexander the Great. His extant fragments show resemblances in style and language to Philitas of Cos, Callimachus and Hermesianax. He was the author of a poem on pederasty, entitled Loves or Beautiful Boys.
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Born in 300, died in 300.
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- 1.Cita R. Cantarella, La letteratura greca dell'età ellenistica e imperiale, nuova ed. aggiornata, Firenze, Sansoni Accademia, 1968 p. 24 R. Cantarella .
- 2.Il titolo è tramandato da Clemente Alessandrino, Stromateis, VI 2, 23.
- 3.Fr. 3, in Plutarco, Questioni conviviali, IV 5, p. 671B.
- 4.Fr. 4, in Orosio, Historiae adversus paganos, I 12.
- 5.Fr. 5, in Clemente Alessandrino, Protreptico, II 32.
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