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One of the earthly muses, along with Sappho, she was a Greek lyric poet of the fifth century B.C.
Praxilla
Praxilla, a woman poet and one of the nine earthly muses, lived around 450 B.C.
Praxilla
Page starts in the midst of a discussion of the "aesthetic suppression of a female lyric poet." Praxilla has been criticized for putting (trivial) ripe cucumbers in the same league with sun and moonlight.
Selected Fragments of Praxilla
Five fragments of Praxilla, translated in English, on this Diotima page.
Literature of Ancient Sikyon
Praxilla wasn't the only writer from Sikyon. A state document, Sikyoniki Anagraphe, since lost, preserved the names of the many writers.

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