PHANOCLES  ,

Greek elegiac poet, probably flourished about the time of Alexander the Great . His extant fragments show resemblances in style and language to Philetas, Callimachus and Hermesianax . He was the author of a poem on paederasty . A lengthy fragment in Stobaeus (Florilegium, 64) describesthe love of Orpheus for the youthful Calais, son of Boreas and his subsequent death at the hands of the Thracian women . It is one of the best extant specimens of Greek elegiac poetry . See N . Bach, Philetae, Hermesianactis, et Phanodis reliquiae (1829) ; L . Preller, Ausgewahlte Aufsatze aus dem Gebiete der classischen Alterlhumswissenschaft (1864) .