The Most Famous
MODELS from Greece
This page contains a list of the greatest Greek Models. The pantheon dataset contains 249 Models, 1 of which were born in Greece. This makes Greece the birth place of the 28th most number of Models behind Belarus and Puerto Rico.
Top 1
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Greek Models of all time. This list of famous Greek Models is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. Phryne (-371 - -310)
With an HPI of 68.50, Phryne is the most famous Greek Model. Her biography has been translated into 30 different languages on wikipedia.
Phryne (; Ancient Greek: Φρύνη, romanized: Phrū́nē, c. 371 BC – after 316 BC) was an ancient Greek hetaira (courtesan). From Thespiae in Boeotia, she was active in Athens, where she became one of the wealthiest women in Greece. She is best known for her trial for impiety, where she was defended by the orator Hypereides. According to legend, she was acquitted after baring her breasts to the jury, though the historical accuracy of this episode is doubtful. She also modeled for the artists Apelles and Praxiteles, and the Aphrodite of Knidos was based on her. Largely ignored during the renaissance, artistic interest in Phryne began to grow from the end of the eighteenth century; her trial was famously depicted by Jean-Léon Gérôme in the 1861 painting Phryne Before the Areopagus.
Pantheon has 1 people classified as models born between 371 BC and 371 BC. Of these 1, none of them are still alive today. The most famous deceased models include Phryne.
