Chap. 10.] CELEBRATED WOHKS IS LUASS. 183 



inus has also written a treatise on his art. Xaiicyclcs* in 

 admired for a Mercury, a Discobolus, w and a 3Tan sacrificing a 

 liani. Naucerus made a figure of a wrestler panting ivr 

 breath; Niccrutus, an uEsculapius and Hygcia, 1 wliich are 

 in the Temple of Concord at Koine. I'yromuchns represented 

 Alcibituies, managing a eliariot with four horses: 1'olyeles 

 made a splendid statue of Ileruiaphroditus ; Pyrrhus, statues of 

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

 sippus, an Kpithynsa. J 



Stypux of Cyprus acquired his celebrity by a single work, 

 the, statue of the Splanchnoptes ; 3 wliieh represents a slave of 

 the Olympian IVrieles, roasting entrails and kindling the lire 

 with his breath. Silunion made a statue in metal of Apollo- 

 dorus, who was himseii' a modeller, and not only the uie-st 

 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 fur the art a circumstance which procured 

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

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

 rietal embodied anger rather than the lineaments of a human 

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

 his Kpistates 1 exercising the Athletes. Btropgyliuu 1 made a 

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

 known as the "Eucnemos," 6 and which Nero used to have carried 

 about with him in his travels, btrongylion was the artist, 



** A native of Argo.s, who flourished in the 95th Olympiad. lie was t^o 

 ion of Motho, and brother and instructor of the younger Polycfcttuof 



Argus, Several of his statues arc mentioned by Pausanias and Tatian. 



^ Ajasson thinks that three statins in the Royal Museum at Paris 

 may possiMy be copirs of tins Discobolus of Xauoytlcs. 



1 The (ioddvss of Health, uud daughter of JCsciilapius. Niccrattti 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 thi* 

 statue, sec 13. xxii. c. 20. This artist is unknown, but Thicrsch biiggots 

 that he may have been the father of Cleonu-m-s, whose name appears on 

 the base of the YMIUS de Mcdicis. * The matter of the Gymnasium. 



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

 Icnoo of his horse* and oxen. His country is unknown. 



6 "The bcautiful-lt-L^cd." This statue has been mentioned at the end 

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



