Chap. 19.] CELEBRATED WORKS IN BRASS. 183 



inus has also written a treatise on his art. Naucydes^^ is 

 admired for a Mercury, a Discobolus,®^ and a Man sacrificing a 

 Bam. JN'aucerus made a figure of a wrestler panting for 

 breath ; JN'iceratus, an -^sculapius and Hygeia,^ which are 

 in the Temple of Concord at Home. Pyromachus represented 

 Alcibiades, managiug a chariot with four horses : Polycles 

 made a splendid statue of Hermaphroditus ; PjTrhus, statues of 

 Hygeia and Minerva ; and Phanis, who was a pupil of Ly- 

 sippus, an Epithyusa.^ 



tStypax of Cyprus acquired his celebrity by a single work, 

 the statue of the Splanchnoptes f which represents a slave of 

 the Olympian Pericles, roasting entrails and kindling the fire 

 Avitli his breath. Siianion made a statue in metal of Apollo- 

 dorus, who was himself a modeller, and not only the most 

 diligent of all in the study of this art, but a most severe 

 criticizer of his own works, frequently breaking his statues to 

 pieces when he had finished 'them, and never able to satisfy 

 his intense passion for the art — a circumstance which procured 

 him the surname of " the Madman." Indeed, it is this ex- 

 pression which he has given to his works, which represent in 

 metal embodied anger rather than the lineaments of a human 

 being. The Achilles, also, of Siianion is very excellent, and 

 his Epistates* exercising the Athletes. Strongylion^ made a 

 figure of an Amazon, which, from the beauty of the legs, was 

 known as the *'Eucnemos,"^ and which JS'ero used to have carried 

 about with him in his travels. Strongylion was the artist, 



ss A native of Argos, who flourished in the 95th Olympiad. He was the 

 son of Motho, and brother and instructor of the younger Polycletus of 

 Argos. Several of his statues are mentioned by Pausanias and Tatian. 



"-" Ajasson thinks that three statues in the Eoyal Museum at Paris 

 may possibly be copies of this Discobolus of Naucydes. 



^ The Goddess of Health, and daughter of ^sculapius. Niceratus was 

 a native of Athens, and is also mentioned by Tatian, 



2 A *' Female sacrificing." The reading is very doubtful. 



'3 The "Man cooking entrails." For some further account of this 



statue, see B. xxii. c. 20. This artist is unknown, but Thiersch suggests 



that he may have been the father of Cleomenes, whose name appears on 



the base of the Venus de Medicis. * The master of the Gymnasium. 



5 He is twice mentioned by Pausanias : more particularly for the excel- 

 lence of his horses and oxen. His country is unknown. 



6 " The beautiful-legged." This statue has been mentioned at the end 

 of Chapter 18, as having been greatly admired by Nero. 



