168 PLINT'S NATUEAL HISTORY. [Book XXXIT. 



CHAP. 19.— AN ACCOUNT OF THE MOST CELEBRATED WOfiKS IX 

 BEASS, AND OE THE AETISTS, 366 IN NIJMBEE. 



An almost innumerable multitude of artists have been ren- 

 dered famous by their statues and figures of smaller size. 

 Before al others is Phidias,^« the Athenian, who executed the 

 Jupiter at Olympia, m ivory and gold/« but who also made 

 ngures m brass as well. He flourished in the eighty-third 

 Olympiad, about the year of our City, 300. To the same a-e 

 belong also his rivals Alcamenes,^^ Critias,^^ Nesiotes,^^ and 

 iiegias.- Afterwards, in the eighty-seventh Olympiad, there 

 were Agelades,- Gallon,- and Gorgi'as the Laconian. in the 

 Zf ' 3^ P r^'^"^ 3<?^f ^ ^"^^ Polyeletus,3B Phradmon," 

 & 1 A r^' ^'T'\ "^^ ^^^^11"« " Of these, 

 aS 3pI'^ ^'' P^^^^^^ Argius,- Asopodorus, Alexis 

 .iristides,^3 phrynon, Dmon, Athenodorus,** and Deieas^^ the 



29 w ?• ^"- '• ^^' ^- ^^'^^^ «• 24' a^d B. xxxvi. c. 4. 

 r.1.. J I J' ^"^ •''°^"* ^^ ^^'^ '*^^"^' and Of the temple in which it wai, 

 ft S ^7 ^^']'^T\^- :- ^^''' '' "« ^«rl^ of Phidias now rn existence 

 the sculptures m the Parthenon were, however executed h^V.^^T^ 

 under his immediate directions, so thLt wTTa/ Zm soL'^d^ 

 brtfeTorSS^"- ^'''' '' ^ '-' '^ ^^' ^^^^^^^ ^--f-?] t^' 



pla^L^^^;^!;™: '' '' ^' '' '^'''^ ^^- '^^^ *-- ^y 



W^ i^l ''^'^'¥ is uncertain here, the old editions givino- " Nestocles " 



tuarv nf fIJ f^;^^ ^' mentioned by Pausanias. There is also a sta- 



3^ il&;:;^5:Vati ^^ ^^^^-'-ntlonedhy Pausanias. 

 39 Again mentbned by Pliny, as a native of Rhegium in Italy 



" PrSbTv' PeHlT' "^f ''^t' '''I ^y ^^™^' and StrS' 

 , -frobably "Peril us/' the artist who made tlie hr.zen bull for Fhakri« 

 ..e lyrant ot Agrigen urn. The old reading is " Parelius." ^''^'^"'' 



dorus^h^l^'ive'''''''""^ word probably mean one person-^' Asopo- 

 ^ Perhaps the same person that is mentioned by Pausanias R vi p on 

 as having improved the form of the starting-place at the Ovmnicr.l * 

 A n°aSf r^rf ^^""" f -/-adifn! and'son of CiltT^ ^^""• 

 A native of Chtonum in Arcadia, and mentioned also by Pausanias. 



