Phanocles

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Phanocles, Greek elegiac poet, probably flourished about the time of Alexander the Great.

His extant fragments show resemblances in style and language to Philetas, Callimachus and Hermesianax. He was the author of a poem on pederasty.

A lengthy fragment in Stobaeus (Florilegium, 64) describes the love of Orpheus for the youthful Calaîs, son of Boreas, and his subsequent death at the hands of the Thracian women. It is one of the best extant specimens of Greek elegiac poetry.

See N Bach, Phuletae, Hermesianactis, et Phanocles reliquiae (1829); Ludwig Preller, Ausgewahhte Aufsatze aus dem Gebiete der ctassischen Alterthumswissenschaft (1864).

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