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for a lizard creepin^ towards him. Also two of his 

 statues expressing opposite emotions are admired, 

 his Matron Weeping and his Merry Courtesan. 

 The latter is believed to have been Phryne and 

 connoisseurs detect in the figure the artist's love of 

 her and the reward promised him " by the expression 

 on the courtesan's face. The kindness also of 

 Praxiteles is represented in sculpture, as in the 

 Chariot and Four of Calamis he contributed the Caiamis. 

 charioteer, in order that the sculptor might not be 

 thought to have failed in the human figure although 

 more successful in representing horses. Calamis 

 himself also made other chariots, some with four 

 horses and some with two, and in executing the 

 horses he is invariably unrivalled : but — that it may 

 not be supposed that he was inferior in his human 

 figures — his Alcmena is as famous as that of any 

 other sculptor. 



Alcamenes a pupil of Pheidias made marble figures, Aicamencs- 

 and also in bronze a Winner of the Five Bouts, 

 known by the Greek term meaning Highly Com- 

 mended,'' but Polycleitus's pupil Aristides made 

 four-horse and pair-horse chariots. Amphicrates is Amphicra/es. 

 praised for his Leaena ; she was a harlot, admitted 

 to the friendship of Harmodius and Aristogeiton 

 because of her skill as a harpist, who though put to 

 the torture by the tyrants ^ till she died refused to 

 betray their plot to assassinate them. Consequently 

 the Athenians wishing to do her honour and yet 

 unwilling to have made a harlot famous, had a statue 

 made of a lioness, as that was her name, and to 

 indicate the reason for the honour paid her instructed 

 the artist to represent the animal as having no 



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