It  was  of  Parian  marble,  and  modeled  from  the  celebrated
Phryne.  His  statues  of  Dionysus  also  expressed  the  most
consummate  physical  beauty,  representing  the  god  as  a
beautiful  youth,  crowned  with  ivy,  engirt  with  a  nebris,  and
expressing  tender  and  dreamy  emotions.  Praxiteles  sculpt-
ured several  figures  of  Eros,  or  the  god  of  love,  of  which
that  at  Thespiae  attracted  visitors  to  the  city  in  the  time  of
Cicero.  It  was  subsequently  carried  to  Rome,  and  per-
ished by  a  conflagration  in  the  time  of  Titus.  One  of  the
most  celebrated  statues  of  this  artist  was  an  Apollo,  many
copies  of  which  still  exist.  His  works  were  very  numerous,
but  chiefly  from  the  circle  of  Dionysus,  Aphrodite,  and
Eros,  in  which  adoration  for  corporeal  attractions  is  the
most  marked  peculiarity,  and  for  which  the  artist  was
fitted  by  his  life  with  the  hetaerae.
