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ARGIVE MASTERS. 395
by the excavations. 743 Naukydes was the teacher as well of Alypos of Sikyon,
concerning whose statues of victors, and for the Delphic group in honor of
Aigospotamoi, we have, however, nothing definite.744 Concerning his other
scholar, his own brother Polycleitos, continually confounded by the ancients
with the greater master of that name, we are better informed. He was prob-
ably in the vigor of early youth about 400 B.C., having been among the masters
who made gifts in honor of Aigospotamoi. "45 He was active late into the next
century, we now know; since his name is found associated with that of his
younger countryman, Lysippos of Sikyon, in an inscription recently discovered
at Thebes.746 Statues by him of victors were seen at Olympia by Pausanias,
the inscriptions of several of which have also been discovered.747
A Zeus Philios seen at Megalopolis by Pausanias, in form akin to Dionysos, as
well as a Zeus Meilichios in marble at Argos, were probably both from his hand,
as well as an Aphrodite in bronze for a votive tripod put up by the Spartans at
Amyclai, in thanks for their victory at Aigospotamoi.74« He executed a bronze
Hecate for Argos, which accompanied one in the same material by his brother
Naukydes, and one in marble by the Parian Scopas.749 It is probable that a
marble group of Apollo, Artemis, and Leto, near Argos, and mentioned by
Pausanias, as well as the knuckle-bone players spoken of by Pliny, were also
his work ; since he belonged rather to the fourth than to the sterner fifth
century, at the extreme lower limit of which we meet him.75° Daidalos, his
brother, likewise belongs properly to that time ; having put up at Olympia a
trophy for the people of Elis, in honor of victory over the Lakedaimonians
about Olymp. 95 (400 B.C.), as well as sharing in a votive offering for the
people of Tegea, for a victory in 369 B.C., Olymp. 102. 4.751 Of his five
statues of athletes at Olympia, described by Pausanias, the inscriptions of but
three have been found.752 From an inscription discovered at Ephesos, it seems
that he was also active in Asia Minor, whither the current of artistic activity
was rapidly turning back from Greece.753 One single statue, existing in sev-
eral replicas, Aphrodite cowering in the bath, has frequently been traced back
to a supposed original by this Argive master of the earlier half of the fourth
century; but it seems more Hellenistic in its spirit, and is, therefore, probably
to be attributed to a later Daidalos of Bithynia.754
Phradmon of Argos is a master of whom we only know that he executed
an Amazon in the rivalry mentioned above, receiving the fourth prize ; and
that, for a temple to Athena, in Thessaly, he executed twelve bronze cows, —
a thank-offering for victory over the Illyrians.755
From such stray notices we gather, that the masters of Argos at this
time were mainly occupied with the athlete's sturdy frame and with com-
memorative statues ; that bronze was the material they worked in ; but that,
in the development of the ideals of the great gods, they took little part.
Such being the character of Argive art, it is not strange, that, in our marble
by the excavations. 743 Naukydes was the teacher as well of Alypos of Sikyon,
concerning whose statues of victors, and for the Delphic group in honor of
Aigospotamoi, we have, however, nothing definite.744 Concerning his other
scholar, his own brother Polycleitos, continually confounded by the ancients
with the greater master of that name, we are better informed. He was prob-
ably in the vigor of early youth about 400 B.C., having been among the masters
who made gifts in honor of Aigospotamoi. "45 He was active late into the next
century, we now know; since his name is found associated with that of his
younger countryman, Lysippos of Sikyon, in an inscription recently discovered
at Thebes.746 Statues by him of victors were seen at Olympia by Pausanias,
the inscriptions of several of which have also been discovered.747
A Zeus Philios seen at Megalopolis by Pausanias, in form akin to Dionysos, as
well as a Zeus Meilichios in marble at Argos, were probably both from his hand,
as well as an Aphrodite in bronze for a votive tripod put up by the Spartans at
Amyclai, in thanks for their victory at Aigospotamoi.74« He executed a bronze
Hecate for Argos, which accompanied one in the same material by his brother
Naukydes, and one in marble by the Parian Scopas.749 It is probable that a
marble group of Apollo, Artemis, and Leto, near Argos, and mentioned by
Pausanias, as well as the knuckle-bone players spoken of by Pliny, were also
his work ; since he belonged rather to the fourth than to the sterner fifth
century, at the extreme lower limit of which we meet him.75° Daidalos, his
brother, likewise belongs properly to that time ; having put up at Olympia a
trophy for the people of Elis, in honor of victory over the Lakedaimonians
about Olymp. 95 (400 B.C.), as well as sharing in a votive offering for the
people of Tegea, for a victory in 369 B.C., Olymp. 102. 4.751 Of his five
statues of athletes at Olympia, described by Pausanias, the inscriptions of but
three have been found.752 From an inscription discovered at Ephesos, it seems
that he was also active in Asia Minor, whither the current of artistic activity
was rapidly turning back from Greece.753 One single statue, existing in sev-
eral replicas, Aphrodite cowering in the bath, has frequently been traced back
to a supposed original by this Argive master of the earlier half of the fourth
century; but it seems more Hellenistic in its spirit, and is, therefore, probably
to be attributed to a later Daidalos of Bithynia.754
Phradmon of Argos is a master of whom we only know that he executed
an Amazon in the rivalry mentioned above, receiving the fourth prize ; and
that, for a temple to Athena, in Thessaly, he executed twelve bronze cows, —
a thank-offering for victory over the Illyrians.755
From such stray notices we gather, that the masters of Argos at this
time were mainly occupied with the athlete's sturdy frame and with com-
memorative statues ; that bronze was the material they worked in ; but that,
in the development of the ideals of the great gods, they took little part.
Such being the character of Argive art, it is not strange, that, in our marble