“In the 103rd Olympiad （368-5 B.C.） flourished Praxiteles, Euphranor..”

Pliny Natural History

“… Praxiteles, too, whose work in marble was his most successful and therefore his most famous, produced, however, some extremely fine work in bronze…”

Pliny Natural History

“Later, they dedicated other works in the Heraeum, including a Hermes in marble holding the infant Dionysus; this is the work of Praxiteles.1”

Pausanias Description of Greece [on the temple of Hera at Olympia]

When Praxiteles the sculptor was in love with Phryne he took her for the model of his Cnidian Aphrodite, and upon the base of his statue of Love below the stage in the theatre inscribed these lines:

Taking his own heart for the pattern, Praxiteles portrayed the love he felt, and gave me to Phryne as the price of myself; and so the love-spell I cast comes no longer of my own bow but of another's gaze.2

Athenaeus Doctors at Dinner

1 discovered there in 1877 and still to be seen at Olympia

2 ascription doubtful, but the poem is of his time: cf. A. Plan. 204 [ Σιμωνίδου ]