Ancient Greek Statue of Phryne

FREE SHIPPING. Information below from Sotheby's Auction. The painting depicted the trial of Phryne, the famously beautiful courtesan of ancient Greece. Accused of profaning the Eleusinian Mysteries, a capitol offence, she was brought before the Athenian judges. At the moment of sentencing, her advocate, the orator Hyperides, swept off the courtesan's clothes, revealing a body so beautiful that the judges were unable to condemn this divine-looking being to death.j