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Updated: May 29, 2025
"The Athenian judges acquitted Phryne because she was beautiful." "They did wrong." "Hardly in the eyes of the gods, whose fairest works must deserve our respect." "Still poison may be kept in the most beautiful vessels." "And yet body and soul always to a certain extent correspond." "And can you dare to call the handsome Verus the admirable Verus?"
Such was the homage which that enthusiastic people, voluptuous and passionate, paid to beauty. More guided by sentiment than reason, and having laws rather than principles, they banished their great men, honored their courtezans, murdered Socrates, permitted themselves to be governed by Aspasia, preserved inviolate the marriage bed, and placed Phryne in the temple of Apollo!
There is another element in the individuality of fourth-century statues which may appeal to modern artists, and which certainly did appeal in an inverted manner to early Christian writers of invectives against pagan idolatry. It was said that Phryne had posed as a model for the Cnidian Aphrodite of Praxiteles; and the character of the goddess was inferred from that of her votary.
Flora was not the only courtesan who received the distinction mentioned in the text. The gilded statue of Phryne, the work of Praxiteles, was placed in the temple at Delphi, presented by the lady herself. He was younger than Marcus Crassus, of the same age as Cicero, and six years older than the Dictator Cæsar.
With glowing faces and eyes of flame they ate their highly-spiced viands, and drank their fiery wines, until all restraint was flung aside, and madness ruled the hour. The lovely Ferlina, whom Kaunitz had placed next to himself, was beautiful as Grecian Phryne; and Sacco, who was between her adorers, Harrach and Colloredo, was bold and bewitching as Lais.
"The Athenian judges acquitted Phryne because she was beautiful." "They did wrong." "Hardly in the eyes of the gods, whose fairest works must deserve our respect." "Still poison may be kept in the most beautiful vessels." "And yet body and soul always to a certain extent correspond." "And can you dare to call the handsome Verus the admirable Verus?"
The equality of the sexes was acknowledged by Jerome when he devoted himself to the education of Roman matrons, and received from the hand of Paula the means of support while he, labored in his cell at Bethlehem. How much more influential was Fabiola or Marcella than Aspasia or Phryne!
"You have no inspiration, then, yet for the Phryne?" she answered, glancing round; "otherwise you would be in the seventh heaven." "No," I groaned, "and the models are so dreadful; so far from giving one an inspiration, they would kill any one had. All last week I was trying to find a model, and all this morning again. I would give anything for a good one."
In the same manner they report that Anacreon of Teios burned for the Samian Bathyllus; who often lamented his love to an inaccurate measure on a hollow lyre. You are violently in love yourself; but if a fairer flame did not burn besieged Troy, rejoice in your lot. Phryne, a freed-woman, and not content with a single admirer, consumes me.
"It is that Eastern thing is it not? the marble pool and a half veiled figure lying beside it with one hand in the water?" "Yes, but I've had to shelve it. Did I show you that last sketch for the Keats picture?" "You did, Orlando; but dismiss the idea that I am going to play Phryne to your Apelles. It won't come off.
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