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'''Phanocles''' ({{lang-grc|Φανοκλῆς}}) was a [[Greece|Greek]] elegiac [[poet]] who probably flourished about the time of [[Alexander the Great]].
'''Phanocles''' ({{lang-grc|Φανοκλῆς}}) was a [[Greece|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'' ({{lang-grc|Ἔρωτες ἢ Καλοί}}). 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. ''Erotes e Kaloi'' describes among others the love between [[Dionysos]] and [[Adonis]], [[Cycnus of Liguria|Cycnus]] and [[Phaethon]], [[Tantalos]] and [[Ganymede (mythology)|Ganymedes]], and of [[Agamemnon]] and [[Argynnus|Argynnos]]. It is one of the best extant specimens of Greek elegiac poetry.
His extant fragments show resemblances in style and language to [[Philitas of Cos]], [[Callimachus]] and [[Hermesianax (poet)|Hermesianax]]. He was the author of a poem on [[pederasty]], entitled ''Loves or Beautiful Boys'' ({{lang-grc|Ἔρωτες ἢ Καλοί}}). 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. ''Erotes e Kaloi'' describes among others the love between [[Dionysos]] and [[Adonis]], [[Cycnus of Liguria|Cycnus]] and [[Phaethon]], [[Tantalos]] and [[Ganymede (mythology)|Ganymedes]], and of [[Agamemnon]] and [[Argynnus|Argynnos]]. It is one of the best extant specimens of Greek elegiac poetry.


==References==
==References==

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Phanocles (Template:Lang-grc) 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 (Template:Lang-grc). 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. Erotes e Kaloi describes among others the love between Dionysos and Adonis, Cycnus and Phaethon, Tantalos and Ganymedes, and of Agamemnon and Argynnos. It is one of the best extant specimens of Greek elegiac poetry.

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)
  •  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domainChisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Phanocles". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 21 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.