BOOK XXXIV. XIX. 55-57 



Polycleitus of Sicyon," pupil of Ha^elades, made a Pohjdenus 

 statue of the ' Diadumenos ' or Binding his Hair — 

 a youth, but soft-looking — famous for having cost 

 100 talents, and also the ' Doryphoros ' or Carry- 

 ing a Spear — a boy, but manly-looking. He also 

 made what artists call a ' Canon ' or Model Statue,^ 

 as they draw their artistic outlines from it as 

 from a sort of standard ; and he alone of man- 

 kind is deemed by means of one work of art to have 

 created the art itself.^ He also made the statue of 

 the Man using a Body-scraper (' Apoxyomenos ') 

 and, in the nude, the Man Attacking with Spear, 

 and the Two Boys Playing Dice, Hkewise in the nude, 

 known by the Greek name of Asiragalizontes and now 

 standing in the fore-court of the Emperor Titus — a.d. 79-8I. 

 this is generally considered to be the most perfect 

 work of art in existence — and likewise the Hermes 

 that was once at Lysimachea ; Heracles ; the Leader 

 Donning his Armour, which is at Rome; and Artemon,*^ 

 called the Man in the Litter. Polycleitus is deemed 

 to have perfected this science of statuary and to 

 have refined the art of carving sculpture, just as 

 Pheidias is considered to have revealed it. A dis- 

 coveiy that was entirely his own is the art of making 

 statues throwing their weight on one leg, although 

 Varro says these figures are of a square buikl and 

 almost all made on one model. 



Myron, who was born at Eleutherae, was himself ^y/j^^ 

 also a pupil of Hagelades ; he was specially famous 

 for his statue of a heifer, celebrated in some well- 



Doryphoros on his own principles, and called the sculptured 

 work also Kavcjv. 



^ A famous voluptuary (not the engineer of Pericles' 

 time). 



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