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Myron of Eleutherse,^^ who was also the pupil of Agelades, 

 was rendered more particularly famous by his statue of a 

 heifer,''* celebrated in many well-known lines : so true is it, 

 that most men owe their renown more to the genius of others, 

 than to their own. He also made the figure of a dog,^^ a 

 Discobolus,^^ a Perseus, ^^ the Pristse,^^ a Satyr''^ admiring a liute, 

 and a Minerva, the Delphic Pentathletes,^ the Pancratiastse,'- 

 and a Hercules,^ which is at the Circus Maximus, in the house 

 of Pompeius Magnus. Erinna,^ in her poems,^ makes allusion 

 to a monument which he erected to a cricket and a locust. 

 He also executed the Apollo, which, after being taken from the 

 Ephesians b)^ the Triumvir Antonius, was restored by the 

 Emperor Augustus, he having been admonished to do so in a 

 dream. Myron appears to have been the first to give a varied' 

 development to the art,® having made a greater number of 

 designs than Polycletus,' and shewn more attention to sym- 

 metry. And yet, though he was very accurate in the propor- 

 tions of his figures, he has neglected to give expression; 

 besides which, he has not treated the hair and the pubes with 



^3 Myron was born at Eleutherse, in Bceotia ; but Laving been presented 

 by tlie Athenians with the freedom of their city, he afterwards resided 

 there, and was always designated an Athenian. — B. 



s-* This figure is referred to by Ovid, De Ponto, B. iv. Ep. 1, 1. 34, as 

 also by a host of Epigratomatic writers in the Greek Anthology. 



55 See the Greek Anthology, B. vi. Ep. 2. 



96 «< Player with the Discus." It is mentioned by Quintilian and Lucian. 

 There is a copy of it in marble in the British Museum, and one in the 

 Palazzo Massimi at Rome. The Heifer of Myron is mentioned by Pro- 

 copius, as being at Rome in the sixth century. No copy of it is known to 

 exist. 



5^ Seen by Pausanias in the Acropolis at Athens. ^^ Or " Sawyers." 



^^ In reference to the story of the Satyr Marsyas and Minerva ; told by 

 Ovid, Fasti, B. vi. 1. 697, et seq. 



^ Persons engaged in the five contests of quoiting, running, leaping, 

 wrestling, and hurling the javelin. 



'^ Competitors in boxing and wrestling. 



3 Mentioned by Cicero In Verrem, Or. 4. This Circus was in the 

 Eleventh Region of the city. 



* See the Anthology, B. iii. Ep. 14, where an epigram on this subject 

 is ascribed to Anytes or Leonides ; but the Myro mentioned is a female. 

 See SiUig, Diet. Ancient Artists. 



5 She was a poetess of Teios or Lesbos, and a contemporary of Sappho. 



® " Multiplicasse veritatem." Sillig has commented at some length on 

 this passage, Diet. Ancient Artists. 



