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nevertheless artists of repute : Antaeus, Callistratus, 

 Polycles of Athens, Calhxenus, Pythocles, Pythias 

 and Timocles. 



After thus defining the periods of the most famous 

 artists, I will hastily run through those of out- 

 standing distinction, throwing in the rest of the 

 throng here and there under various heads. The 

 most celebrated have also come into competition 

 with each other, although born at different periods, 

 because they had made statues of Amazons ; when 

 these were dedicated in the Temple of Artemis of 

 Ephesus, it was agreed that the best one should be 

 selected by the vote of the artists themselves who 

 were present ; and it then became evident that the 

 best was the one which all the artists judged to be 

 the next best after their own : this is the Amazon 

 by Polycleitus, while next to it came that of Pheidias, 

 third Cresilas's, fourth Cydon's " and fifth Phradmon's. 



Pheidias, besides the Olympian Zeus, which pheidias. 

 nobody has ever rivalled, executed in ivory and gold § ^^- 

 the statue of Athene that stands erect in the 

 Parthenon at Athens, and in bronze, besides the 

 Amazon mentioned above, an Athene of such ex- 

 quisite beauty that it has been surnamed the Fair.^ 

 He also madc the Lady «^ with the Keys, and another 

 Athene which Aemilius Paulus dedicated in Romei67B.o,r 

 at the temple of Today's Fortune, and Ukewise a 

 work consisting of two stntues wearing cloaks which 

 Catulus erected in the same temple, and another 101 b.( 

 work, a colcssal statue undraped ; and Pheidias is 

 deservedly deemed to have first revealed the capa- 

 bilities and indicated the methods of statuary.<* 



^ Here perhaps ali statuary as contrasted with painting ; or 

 else all metal-work only. 



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