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Phryné
The Nuttall Encyclopedia
A Greek courtesan, celebrated for her beauty; was the model to Praxiteles of his statue of Venus; accused of profaning the Eleusinian Mysteries, she was brought before the judges, to whom she exposed her person, but who acquitted her of the charge, to preserve to the artists the image of divine beauty thus recognised in her.
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Wood, James, ed. Entry for 'PhrynĂ©'. The Nuttall Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/​encyclopedias/​eng/​nut/​p/phryn.html. Frederick Warne & Co Ltd. London. 1900.