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CHAPTER XXV.
SCOPAS AND HIS ASSOCIATES. —THE MAUSOLEUM.
Scopas' Early Activity. — Temple of Athena Alea. — Its Remains. — Their Style. — Other Works of
Scopas in the Peloponnesos. — Scopas'Works in Athens and Other Parts of Greece. — Bacchante.—
Apollo. — Nereids. — Scopas at Ephesos. — Works carried to Rome. — Associates. — Leochares.—
His Work for Alexander and Others.— Figures of Gods. — Ganymede. — Bryaxis.— Timotheos.
— The Carians. — Mausolos and Artemisia.—Halicarnassos. — The Mausoleum. — Its Ruins.—
Description of Remains. — Varying Excellence of these. — Probable Arrangement. — Influence of
these Sculptures on Later Art. — Mausolos' Portrait. — Style of these Sculptures from Halicar-
nassos.
Scopas, somewhat older than Praxiteles, was not a native Athenian, but
from the island of Paros, and of artist stock; his father, Aristandros, having
been a caster in bronze, who executed votive gifts for the Spartan Lysander,
after the battle of Aigospotamoi.88? Scopas, like his father, was employed in the
Peloponnesos in his early years. His first work, in which alone he seems to have
followed his father's technique, was in bronze,—an Aphrodite Pandemos riding
on a goat, and seen in Elis by Pausanias.sss But a more extensive and celebrated
work soon occupied his energies. This was rebuilding and decorating the Tem-
ple of Athena Alea at Tegea, which, in 394 B.C., had been destroyed by fire,
only a few of its relics having been saved. The young master was doubtless just
entering upon his long and honorable career when he rebuilt this temple. Pau-
sanias enthusiastically declares his building to be superior in size and grandeur
to all others in the Peloponnesos; and its ruins are still to be seen in the plain
of Tegea, near the modern village of Piale.S89 With Corinthian, as well as
Doric and Ionic, columns, Scopas adorned the sacred edifice. He filled both
pediments with sculptures; and within, by the side of the temple-statue of
Athena by Endoios, he placed statues of Asclepios and Hygieia. In one pedi-
ment, Pausanias saw represented the mythic hunt of the Calydonian boar,
believed to have been sent by Artemis to ravage the blooming fields of Ar-
cadia. Accompanied by the Arcadian heroine Atalante, Meleager, according to
story, with many heroes from other parts of Greece, laid low the furious beast,
first hit by the arrows of Atalante, who received, in consequence, the prize, —
the boar's skin. Long preserved within the temple, among its most precious
relics, were this beast's skin and tusks ; but the latter were at last taken by
Augustus to Rome. Of Scopas' pedimental sculptures relating to this hunt,
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SCOPAS AND HIS ASSOCIATES. —THE MAUSOLEUM.
Scopas' Early Activity. — Temple of Athena Alea. — Its Remains. — Their Style. — Other Works of
Scopas in the Peloponnesos. — Scopas'Works in Athens and Other Parts of Greece. — Bacchante.—
Apollo. — Nereids. — Scopas at Ephesos. — Works carried to Rome. — Associates. — Leochares.—
His Work for Alexander and Others.— Figures of Gods. — Ganymede. — Bryaxis.— Timotheos.
— The Carians. — Mausolos and Artemisia.—Halicarnassos. — The Mausoleum. — Its Ruins.—
Description of Remains. — Varying Excellence of these. — Probable Arrangement. — Influence of
these Sculptures on Later Art. — Mausolos' Portrait. — Style of these Sculptures from Halicar-
nassos.
Scopas, somewhat older than Praxiteles, was not a native Athenian, but
from the island of Paros, and of artist stock; his father, Aristandros, having
been a caster in bronze, who executed votive gifts for the Spartan Lysander,
after the battle of Aigospotamoi.88? Scopas, like his father, was employed in the
Peloponnesos in his early years. His first work, in which alone he seems to have
followed his father's technique, was in bronze,—an Aphrodite Pandemos riding
on a goat, and seen in Elis by Pausanias.sss But a more extensive and celebrated
work soon occupied his energies. This was rebuilding and decorating the Tem-
ple of Athena Alea at Tegea, which, in 394 B.C., had been destroyed by fire,
only a few of its relics having been saved. The young master was doubtless just
entering upon his long and honorable career when he rebuilt this temple. Pau-
sanias enthusiastically declares his building to be superior in size and grandeur
to all others in the Peloponnesos; and its ruins are still to be seen in the plain
of Tegea, near the modern village of Piale.S89 With Corinthian, as well as
Doric and Ionic, columns, Scopas adorned the sacred edifice. He filled both
pediments with sculptures; and within, by the side of the temple-statue of
Athena by Endoios, he placed statues of Asclepios and Hygieia. In one pedi-
ment, Pausanias saw represented the mythic hunt of the Calydonian boar,
believed to have been sent by Artemis to ravage the blooming fields of Ar-
cadia. Accompanied by the Arcadian heroine Atalante, Meleager, according to
story, with many heroes from other parts of Greece, laid low the furious beast,
first hit by the arrows of Atalante, who received, in consequence, the prize, —
the boar's skin. Long preserved within the temple, among its most precious
relics, were this beast's skin and tusks ; but the latter were at last taken by
Augustus to Rome. Of Scopas' pedimental sculptures relating to this hunt,
455