168 PLIST'S NATURAL HISTORY. [Book XXX IT. 



CHAP. 19. AX ACCOUNT OF THE MOST CELEBRATED "\V01iKS JN 



BRASS, AND OF THE ARTISTS, 3GG IN NUMBKR. 



An almost innumerable multitude of artists have been ren- 

 dered famous by their statues and figures of smaller size. 

 Before all others is Phidias, 28 the Athenian, 'who executed the 

 Jupiter at Olympia, in ivory and gold,* 9 but who also made 

 figures in brass as well. He flourished in the eighty-third 

 Olympiad, about the year of our City, 300. To the same age 

 belong also his rivals Alcamenes, 30 Critias, 31 Xesiotes, 32 and 

 Hrgias. 53 Afterwards, in the eighty-seventh Olympiad, there 

 \vcre Ageladfs, 31 Callon, 54 and Gorgias the Laconian. In the 

 ninetieth Olympiad there were Polycletus, 36 Phradmon, 37 

 Myron, 86 Pythagoras, 39 Scopas, 40 and "Perellus. 41 Of these, 

 Polycletus had for pupils, Argius, 42 Asopodorus, Alexis, 

 Aristides, 43 Phrynon, liinon, Athenociorus, 41 and Demeas" the 



25 See B. vii. c. 39, B. xxxv. c. 34, and B. xxxvi. c. 4. 



2i We have an account of this statue, and of the temple in which it was 

 placed, by Pausanias, B. v. There is no work of Phidias now in existence ; 

 the sculptures in the Parthenon were, however, executed by his pupils and 

 under his immediate directions, so that we may form some judgment of 

 his genius and taste. B. There is a foot in the British Museum, said to 

 be the work of Phidias. 



io An Athenian ; see B. xxxvi. c. 5. He is spoken of in high terms by 

 Pausanias and Valerius Maximus. 



31 Tutor of Ptoliclius of Corcyra, and highly distinguished for his statues 

 of the slayers of the tyrants at Athens. He is mentioned also hy Lucian 

 and Pausauias. 



32 The reading is uncertain here, the old editions giving " NtstocUs." 

 "We shall only devote a Note to such artists as are mentioned hy other 

 authors besides Pliny. w An Athenian ; mentioned also by I'uusanias. 



51 1 here were probably two artists of this name ; one an A'rgive, tutor 

 of Phidias, and the other a Sicyonian, the person here referred to. 



* 5 A native of ^Egiua, mentioned by Pausanias. There is also a 6ta- 

 tuary of Elis of the same name, mentioned by Pausanias, and to whom 

 Thicrsch is of opinion reference is here made. 



36 See Chapter 5 of this Book. 37 An Argive, mentioned by Puusanias. 



3 > See Chapter 5 of this Book. 



5? Again mentioned by Pliny, as a native of Rhrgium in Italy. 



40 A native of Paros, mentioned also by Pausanias and Strabo. 



41 Probably '* Perillus," the artist who made the brazen bull for Phalaris, 

 the tyrant of Agrigentum. The old reading is " Parelius." 



42 'This and the following word probably mean one person *' Asopo- 

 dorus the Argivc." 



43 Perhaps the same person that is mentioned by Pausanias, B.vi. c. 20, 

 as having improved the form of the starting-place at the Olympic Games. 



44 Mentioned bv Pausanias as an Arcadian, and son of Clitor. 



e A native of Clitorium in Arcadia, and nicntioutd also by Puusanias. 



