Phryne Going to the Public Baths as Venus: Demosthenes Taunted by Aeschines

Phryne Going to the Public Baths as Venus: Demosthenes Taunted by Aeschines by Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775-1851) Painting of 1838, 193 cm x 165 cm

A mixture of two stories, Phryne bathing nude in Eleusis and the story of Demosthenes saying that Aeschines was the son of a courtesan

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