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obstinately opposed to this that they raised an out- 

 cry at the theatre, shouting " Give us back the 

 ' Apoccyovienos ' " — Man using a Body-scraper — and 

 the Emperor, although he had fallen quite in love 

 with the statue, had to restore it. Lysippus is also 

 famous for his Tipsy Girl playing the Fhite, and his 

 Hounds and Huntsmen in Pursuit of Game, but 

 most of all for his Chariot with the Sun belonging to 

 Rhodes.'' He also executed a series of statues of 

 Alexander the Great, beginning with one in 356-323 b.c. 

 Alexander's boyhood. The emperor Nero was so a.d. 54-68, 

 delighted by this statue of the young Alexander 

 that he ordered it to be gilt ; but this addition to its 

 money vakie so diminished its artistic attraction 

 that afterwards the gold was removed, and in that 

 condition the statue was considered yet more valu- 

 able, even though still retaining scars from the 

 work done on it and incisions in which the gold had 

 been fastened. The same sculptor did Alexander 

 the Great's friend Hephaestio, a statue which some 

 people ascribe to Polycleitus,^ although his date is 

 about a hundred years earlier ; and also Alexander's 

 Hunt, dedicated at Delphi, a Satyr now at Athens, 

 and Alexander's Squadron of Horse, in which the 

 sculptor introduced portraits of Alexander's friends <^ 

 consummately lifelike in every case. After the con- 

 quest of Macedonia this was removed to Rome by 148 b.o. 

 Metellus ; he also executed Four-horse Chariots of 

 various kinds. Lysippus is said to have contributed 

 greatly to the art of bronze statuary by representing 

 the details of the hair and by making his heads 

 smaller than the old sculptors used to do, and his 

 bodies more slender and firm, to give his statues 

 the appearance of greater height. He scrupulously 



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