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Praxilla was a Greek lyric poet of the 5th century BC
she wrote drinking songs (scolia), hymns and dithyrambs (choral odes performed at festivals of Dionysus). 

She composed a hymn to Adonis from which one fragment survives, in which Adonis, in response to a question from the shades in the underworld ("What was the most beautiful thing you left behind?"), answers:

Finest of all the things I have left is the light of the sun,
Next to that the brilliant stars and the face of the moon,
Cucumbers in their season, too, and apples and pears.
Praxilla was a Greek lyric poet of the 5th century BC
she wrote drinking songs (scolia), hymns and dithyrambs (choral odes performed at festivals of Dionysus). 

She composed a hymn to Adonis from which one fragment survives, in which Adonis, in response to a question from the shades in the underworld ("What was the most beautiful thing you left behind?"), answers:

Finest of all the things I have left is the light of the sun,
Next to that the brilliant stars and the face of the moon,
Cucumbers in their season, too, and apples and pears.
Praxilla was a Greek lyric poet of the 5th century BC
she wrote drinking songs (scolia), hymns and dithyrambs (choral odes performed at festivals of Dionysus). 

She composed a hymn to Adonis from which one fragment survives, in which Adonis, in response to a question from the shades in the underworld ("What was the most beautiful thing you left behind?"), answers:

Finest of all the things I have left is the light of the sun,
Next to that the brilliant stars and the face of the moon,
Cucumbers in their season, too, and apples and pears.
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Praxilla Sculpture

Diana Roche

United States

Sculpture, Metal on Iron

Size: 7.1 W x 17.3 H x 18.9 D in

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Praxilla was a Greek lyric poet of the 5th century BC she wrote drinking songs (scolia), hymns and dithyrambs (choral odes performed at festivals of Dionysus). She composed a hymn to Adonis from which one fragment survives, in which Adonis, in response to a question from the shades in the underworld ("What was the most beautiful thing you left behind?"), answers: Finest of all the things I have left is the light of the sun, Next to that the brilliant stars and the face of the moon, Cucumbers in their season, too, and apples and pears.

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Sculpture:Metal on Iron

Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork

Size:7.1 W x 17.3 H x 18.9 D in

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