170 PLINY'S NATURAL HISTOBT. [Rook XXXIV. 



having acquired great celebrity without any instructor : 

 Zeuxis* 3 was his pupil. In the hundred and twenty- first 

 Olympiad were Eutychides, 61 Euthycrates, 63 Laippus, 6 * Ceuliiso- 

 dotus,* 7 Timarchuft, 88 and Pyromachus. 69 



The practice of this art then ceased for some time, hut 

 revived in the hundred and fifty-sixth Olympiad, when there 

 were some artists, who, though far inferior to those already men- 

 tioned, were still highly esteemed; Antieus, Callistratiis. 7 ' 1 Poly- 

 cleV l AthenaMis, 72 Callixeuus,Pythoeles, Pythias, and Ti modes. 73 



Tiie ages of the most celebrated artists being thus distin- 

 guished, I shall cursorily review the more eminent of them, 

 the greater part being mentioned in a desultory manner. The; 

 most celebrated of these artists, though born at different 

 epochs, have joined in a trial of skill in the Amazons which 

 the}* have respectively made. When these statues were dedi- 

 cated in the Temple of Diana at Kphesus, it was agreed, in 

 order to ascertain which was the best, that it should be left to 

 the judgment of the artists themselves who were then present : 

 upon which, it was evident that that was the best, which all 

 the artists agreed in considering as the next best to his own. 

 Accordingly, the first rank was assigned to Polydetus, the 

 second to Phidias, the third to Cresilas, the fourth to Cydon, 

 and the fifth to Phradmon. 7 * 



63 Sec B. xxxv. c. 36. 



64 A Sicyonian, pupil of Lysippus. lie is also mentioned by Pausanias ; 

 free also 1>. xxxvi. c. 4. 



cs Son and pupil of Lysippus. He is mentioned also by Tatian, and by 

 some writers as the instructor of Xenocrates. 



'* Sillig thinks that this is a mistake made by Pliny for ' Paippus," a 

 statuary mentioned by Pausanias. 



i7 Son of Praxiteles, and mentioned by Tatian in conjunction with Ku- 

 thycrates. The elder Cephifodotua has been already mentioned. See Note .V2. 



'" Another son of Praxiteles, lie is alo alluded to by Pausanias, though 

 lint by name. 



cv His country is uncertain, but ho was preceptor of Mygdoii of Soli. 

 Sc 15. xxxv. c. 40. 



'" Mentioned also by Tatian; his country is unknown. 



71 It is doubtful whether Pausanias alludes, in U. vi. c. 4, to this artist, 

 <>r t> the one of the same name mentioned under Olymp. 102. See Note 51. 



: - Sillis suggests tliat this word is an adjective, denoting the Country of 

 1'olvclcft, in order to distinguish him from the elder Polyeles. 



'' We learn from Pausanias that he worked in conjunction with Ti- 

 marchides. The other art ists here mentioned arc quite unknown. 



" ; Sillii;, in his ** Dictionary of Ancient ArlisU," observes that " t)iis 

 T ;l v.;iLfe cor:tains many foolish statements." Also that there is 4< an ob- 

 intermixture in it of truth and falsehood." 



