- In Gr**** mythology,
Phaon (Ancient Gr****: Φάων; gen.: Φάωνος) was a
mythical boatman of
Mytilene in ****s. He was old and ugly when
Aphrodite came to...
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Phaon was an
imperial freedman and
confidant of the
Roman emperor Nero. He, with Epaphroditus,
Neophytus and Sporus, took Nero to his own
villa in the...
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Sappho and
Phaon is an 1809
neoclassical painting by the
French painter Jacques-Louis
David of Cupid,
Sappho and her
lover Phaon. It was commissioned...
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Phaon is a
boatman from Gr**** mythology,
lover of Sappho.
Phaon may also
refer to:
Phaon (freedman) (fl. 1st century), a
confidant of
Roman emperor Nero...
- The
Faerie Queene is an
English epic poem by
Edmund Spenser.
Books I–III were
first published in 1590, then
republished in 1596
together with
books IV–VI...
- USS
Phaon (ARB-3) was
planned as a
United States Navy LST-1-class tank
landing ship, but was
redesignated as one of
twelve Aristaeus-class
battle damage...
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leaping from the
Leucadian cliffs due to her
unrequited love for the
ferryman Phaon.
Sappho was a
prolific poet,
probably composing around 10,000 lines. She...
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Phaon iridipennis,
commonly known as the
glistening demoiselle or glinsterjuffertjie, is a
species of
damselfly in the
family Calopterygidae. This is...
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Phaon is a
small genus of
damselflies belonging to the
family Calopterygidae. They
occur in
central and
southern Africa and Madagascar. The
genus contains...
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Mimoides phaon, the red-sided
swallowtail or
variable swallowtail, is a
species of
butterfly in the
family Papilionidae. It is
native to the Americas...
