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Updated: June 29, 2025
I'll wager that when Antony first set eyes on Cleopatra, he said, 'And which cocoa palm did she fall out of? Phryne was of the beautified baboon cast of features, and as for Helen of Troy, the best authorities now lean to the belief that the face that launched a thousand ships and fired the topless towers of Ilium was a reversion to the arboreal.
It is the day after that on which Alcibiades cut off his dog's tail; and, exulting in the effect produced by that exploit, he enters with the rich Gorgias, who has ordered and paid Phidias in advance for statues of his three friends, Laïs, Phryné, and Aspasia.
He who had painted Phryne so long and faithfully had got a taint on his brush he could not paint this pure, bright, rosy dawn he who had always painted the glare of midnight gas on rouge or rags. Yet he felt that if he could transfer to canvas the light that was on Bébée's face he would get what Scheffer had missed. For a time it eluded him.
For example, we have made a term abuse out of the name of the glorious Phryne. "We prefer one of Holbein's meagre, pallid virgins, which is wholly ours to an antique Venus, no matter how divinely beautiful she is, but who loves Anchises to-day, Paris to-morrow, Adonis the day after.
Take all the poetry, the painting, the sculpture, beginning with Pouschkine's 'Little Feet, with 'Venus and Phryne, and you will see that woman is only a means of enjoyment. That is what she is at Trouba,* at Gratchevka, and in a court ball-room.
"Aye! like Callista, and Phryne, and the flute-player Stephanion," interrupted the Roman, shrugging his shoulders. "How should it be different?" asked the Corinthian, looking at his friend in astonishment.
It was Phryne, the famous beauty of Athens, appearing naked before the crowd of pilgrims on the beach of Delphi.
In his quick way he sprang from his horse, stripped off his clothes it was really a shame and, to the delight of the boys, threw their wrestling-master as if he had been a feather. The Hetaira Phryne was summoned before the judges for an offence against religion.
I know not what passes in the sacred courts; but here below Neamede, Phila, Lais, Gnathene, the witty Phryne, the despair of the pencil of Apelles, and the chisel of Praxiteles, Leëna, beloved of Harmodias, the two sisters named Aphyes, because they were small and had large eyes, Dorica, the fillet of whose locks and embalmed robe were consecrated in the temple of Venus, all these enchantresses knew only the perfumes of Arabia.
Her perfumed hair brushes his cheek. Her eyes gleam like diamonds, as they sweep past the brilliantly lighted temples of pleasure. She is Phryne and Aspasia to-night. Villa Rocca is drunk with the delirium of passion. His mind reels. "I will do it," he hoarsely murmurs. Arrived at the "porte cochere," the count lifts his hat, as madame reenters her home.
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