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since he lived at . . . in Thessaly where his works 

 have remained in concealment, although these 

 writers' own testimony puts him on a level with 

 Polycleitus, Myron and Pythagoras. They praise 

 his Larisa, his Spintharus the Five-bout Champion, 

 and his Apollo. Others however are of opinion 

 that the cause of his lack of celebrity is not the 

 reason mentioned but his having devoted himself 

 entirely to the studios estabUshed by King Xerxes 

 and King Darius. 



Praxiteles although more successful and therefore Praxiteies. 

 more celebrated in marble, nevertheless also made ' '^' 

 some very beautiful works in bronze : the Rape of 

 Persephone, also The Girl Spinning,'' and a Father 

 Liber or Dionysus, with a figure of Drunkenness and 

 also the famous Satyr, known by the Greek title 

 Periboetos meaning ' Celebrated,' and the statues 

 that used to be in front of the Temple of Happiness, 

 and the Aphrodite, which was destroyed by fire v/hen 

 the temple of that goddess was burnt down in the 

 reign of Claudius, and which rivalled the famous a.d- 41-54. 

 Aphrodite, in marble, that is known all over the 

 M-orld ; also A Woman Bestowing a Wreath, A 

 Woman Putting a Bracelet on her Arm,^ Autumn. 

 Harmodius and Aristogeiton who slew the tyrant ^ — 

 the last piece ^ carried oif by Xerxes King of the 4S0 .bc. 

 Persians but restored to the Athenians by Alexander 331 b.c. 

 the Great after his conquest of Persia. Praxiteles 

 also made a youthful Apollo called in Greek the 

 Lizard-Slayer ^ because he is waiting with an arrow 



^ But the group carried off was by Antenor, and its 

 restoration is attributed also to Seleucus I, and to Antiochus I, 

 See note on pp. 256-257. 



* Degenerate copies of this still exist. 



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