Gerome

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Gerome

• Gerome
• Frine, 1861
• PHRYNE, Greek courtesan, lived in the 4th century
  n.c. Her real name was Mnesarete, but owing to
  her complexion she was called Phryne (toad), a
  name given to other courtesans. She was born at
  Thespiae in Boeotia, but seems to have lived at
  Athens. She acquired so much wealth by her
  extraordinary beauty that she offered to rebuild
  the walls of Thebes, which had been destroyed by
  Alexander the Great (336), Oh condition that the
  words Destroyed by Alexander, restored by Phryne
  the courtesan, were inscribed upon them. On the
  occasion of a festival of Poseidon at Eleusis she
  laid aside her garments, let down her hair, and
  stepped into the sea in the sight of the people,
  thus suggesting tothe painter Apelles his great
  picture of Aphrodite Anadyomene, for,which Phryne
  sat as model. She was also (according to some)
  the model for the statue of the Cnidian Aphrodite
  by Praxiteles. When accused of profaning the
  Eleusinian mysteries, she was defended by the
  orator Hypereides, one of her lovers. When it
  seemed, as if the verdict would be urifavourable,
  he rent her robe and displayed her lovely bosom,
  which,so moved her judges that they acquitted
  her. According to others, she herself thus
  displayed her charms. She is said to have made an
  attempt on the virtue of the philosopher
  Xenocrates. A statue of Phryne, the work of
  Praxiteles, was placed in a temple at Thespiae by
  the side of a statue of Aphrodite by the same
  artist.

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