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Phanocles

Ancient Greek poet

Phanocles () 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 (). A lengthy fragment in Stobaeus (Florilegium, 4.20b.47) describes the love of Orpheus for the youthful Calaïs, 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

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.

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