Phanocles

Phanocles (Ancient Greek: Φανοκλῆς) was a Greek elegiac poet who probably flourished about the time of Alexander the Great.

His extant fragments show resemblances in style and language to Philitas of Cos, Callimachus and Hermesianax. He was the author of a poem on pederasty, entitled Loves or Beautiful Boys (Ancient Greek: Ἔρωτες ἢ Καλοί). A lengthy fragment in Stobaeus (Florilegium, 4.20b.47) describes the love of Orpheus for the youthful Calaîs, son of Boreas, and his subsequent death at the hands of the Thracian women. Erotes e Kaloi describes among others the love between Dionysos and Adonis, Cycnus and Phaethon, Tantalos and Ganymedes, and of Agamemnon and Argynnos.

References

• Nicolaus Bachius (Bach) (1829). Philetae Coi, Hermesianactis Colophonii, atque Phanoclis Reliquiae (in Latin). Halle: Libraria Gebaueria.
• Ludwig Preller (1864). Ausgewählte Aufsätze aus dem Gebiete der classischen Alterthumswissenschaft (in German). Berlin: Weidmannsche Buchhandlung.
• Katherina Alexander, A stylistic commentary on Phanocles and related texts. (Amsterdam, 1988)
• Michael Tueller, text & commentary on fragments 1–3, in D. Sider (ed.), Hellenistic Poetry: A Selection (Ann Arbor 2017) 462–71.
• This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Phanocles". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 21 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.

External links

• Phanocles, Fragment 1, translation by S. Burges Watson, Living Poets, (Durham, 2014)