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Praxilla, of Sicyon, was a Greek lyric poet of the 5th century BC. She was one of the nine lyric Muses.

According to Athenaeus (xv. 694), she was famous as a composer of scolia (short lyrical poems sung after dinner), which were considered equal to those of Alcaeus and Anacreon. She also wrote dithyrambs and hymns, chiefly on mystic and mythological subjects, genealogies, and the love-stories of the gods and heroes. A dactylic metre was also called by her name.

Fragments in T. Bergk, Poetae Lyrici Graeci, vol. iii; see also C. F. Neue, De Praxillae Sicyoniae reliquiis (progr. Dorpat, 1844).

This article incorporates text from the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica, which is in the public domain.