Chap. 19.] CELEBRATED WORKS IN BRASS, 187 



Tisicrates*^ executed a two-horse chariot in brass, in which 

 Piston afterwards placed the figure of a female. Piston also 

 made the statues of Mars and Mercury, which are in the 

 Temple of Concord at Eome. No one can commend Perillus ;*^ 

 more cruel even than the tyrant Phalaris^* himself, he made 

 for him a brazen bull, asserting that when a man was enclosed 

 in it, and fire applied beneath, the cries of the man would 

 resemble the roaring of a bull : however, with a cruelty in 

 this instance marked by justice, the experiment of this torture 

 was first tried upon himself. To such a degree did this man 

 degrade the art of representing gods and men, an art more 

 adapted than any other to refine the feelings ! Surely so many 

 persons had not toiled to perfect it in order to make it an instru- 

 ment of torture ! Hence it is that the works of Perillus are 

 only preserved, in order that whoever sees them, may detest 

 the hands that made them. 



Sthennis'*^ made the statues of Ceres, Jupiter, and Minerva, 

 which are now in the Temple of Concord ; also figures of ma- 

 trons weeping, adoring, and offering sacrifice ; 8imon^° exe- 

 cuted figures of a dog and an archer. Stratonicus,"*^ the chaser 

 in silver, made some figures of philosophers ; and so did both 

 of the artists named Scopas.^^ 



The following artists have made statues of athletes, armed 

 men, hunters, and sacrificers — Baton,*^ Euchir,^'' Glaucides,^^ 

 Heliodorus,^^ Hicanus, Leophon, Lyson,^^ Leon, Menodorus,^* 



*2 Already mentioned as a successful pupil of Lysippus. _ 



*3 He was probably a native of Agrigentum, and flourished about B.C. 

 560. The brazen bull of Perillus, and his unhappy fate, are recorded by 

 many of the classical writers, among others by Valerius Maximus, B. ix. 

 CO. 2, 9, and by Ovid, Art. Am. B. i. 11. 653-4.— B. 



" See B. vii. c. 57. 



*5 Mentioned at the commencement of this Chapter. 



*6 A statuary of jEgina, mentioned also by Pausanias, B. v. c. 27, in 

 connexion with Dionysius of Argos. He flourished about Olymp. 76. 



^■^ Already mentioned in B. xxxiii. c. 55, and previously in this Chapter. 



*^ " Scopas uterque." Sillig, Diet. Ancient^Artists, expresses an opi- 

 nion that these words are an interpolation ; but in his last edition of 

 Pliny, he thinks with M. Ian, that some words are wanting, expressive of 

 the branch in which these artists excelled. See also B. xxxvi. cc. 5, 14. 



*3 He is previously mentioned in this Chapter. See p. 179. 



50 An Athenian artist, son of Eubulides. He is also mentioned by 

 Pausanias. ^i ^ Lacedeemonian artist, also mentioned by Pausanias. 



52 See B. xxxvi. c. 4. ^3 Mentioned also by Pausanias, B. i. c. 3. 



5* Probably not the Athenian statuary mentioned by Pausanias, B. ii. 

 c. 7. See Sillig, Diet. Ancient Artists. 



