Praxiteles Syllabification: (Prax·it·e·les)Pronunciation: /prakˈsitlˌēz/Definition of Praxiteles (mid 4th century bc), Athenian sculptor. Only one of his works, Hermes Carrying the Infant Dionysus, survives. He is also noted for a statue of Aphrodite, of which there are only Roman copies. Praxiteles in other Oxford dictionaries Definition of Praxiteles in the British & World English dictionary