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204 CONTEMPORARIES AND PUPILS OF PP1EID1AS.
of the wrists,' an idea of which, as has been well pointed out,1 may
be gained from the beautiful bronze Athene Agoraia in the Uffizi at
Florence, with the right hand held out in calm declamation.
We have no means of forming a judgment respecting the style of
Alcamenes or the difference between his Aphrodite and that of his
great master. His works were numerous and included several deities :
a statue of Here"1 in a temple between Phalerum and Athens;
another of Arcs in Athens itself; a chryselephantine statue of
Dionysus2, in the Theatre at Athens, of which we have the type on
Athenian coins, both bronze and silver,4 where the God is represented
with a beard, sitting on a throne, and holding a cup in his hand from
which he dispenses his gifts to mortals ; and a bronze PentatJdos?
pIG 7g surnamcd encrinomcnos (approved pat-
tern). Alcamenes was also employed at
a late age, 01. 94. 2 (B.C. 402), to execute
a marble group of Athene and Herac/es,
which Thrasybulus and the Athenians
offered in the Heracleion at Thebes to
commemorate theexpulsionof the Thirty
Tyrants." He also executed a statue of
As&/e/>ios(Ai.scu\3Lpius) in gold and ivory.
He probably fixed the type of this deity,
whom he represents, as we still find
him in later art, as a sort of humanized
Zeus Olympius, seated on a throne.
Asklepios was much worshipped by the
Greeks on account of the very great va-
lue they attached to bodily health.7 He
BRITISH MUSEUM.
had a large temple on the Acropolis, of
which the remains arc still seen. The likeness to Zeus is clearly marked
1 Overbeck, Gcsch. d. Plastik, i. 241. 5 One practised in all the five gymnastic
2 Pausan. i. 1. 5. Clarac, Music dt exercises.
Sculpture, iii. 466, 872. 6 Pausan. i.\. 11. 4.
3 Pausan. i. 20. 2. ' Ariphron of Sicyon :—
1 Ucule, Les Momma U'Alh
262. 1 1 T€0aAt
of the wrists,' an idea of which, as has been well pointed out,1 may
be gained from the beautiful bronze Athene Agoraia in the Uffizi at
Florence, with the right hand held out in calm declamation.
We have no means of forming a judgment respecting the style of
Alcamenes or the difference between his Aphrodite and that of his
great master. His works were numerous and included several deities :
a statue of Here"1 in a temple between Phalerum and Athens;
another of Arcs in Athens itself; a chryselephantine statue of
Dionysus2, in the Theatre at Athens, of which we have the type on
Athenian coins, both bronze and silver,4 where the God is represented
with a beard, sitting on a throne, and holding a cup in his hand from
which he dispenses his gifts to mortals ; and a bronze PentatJdos?
pIG 7g surnamcd encrinomcnos (approved pat-
tern). Alcamenes was also employed at
a late age, 01. 94. 2 (B.C. 402), to execute
a marble group of Athene and Herac/es,
which Thrasybulus and the Athenians
offered in the Heracleion at Thebes to
commemorate theexpulsionof the Thirty
Tyrants." He also executed a statue of
As&/e/>ios(Ai.scu\3Lpius) in gold and ivory.
He probably fixed the type of this deity,
whom he represents, as we still find
him in later art, as a sort of humanized
Zeus Olympius, seated on a throne.
Asklepios was much worshipped by the
Greeks on account of the very great va-
lue they attached to bodily health.7 He
BRITISH MUSEUM.
had a large temple on the Acropolis, of
which the remains arc still seen. The likeness to Zeus is clearly marked
1 Overbeck, Gcsch. d. Plastik, i. 241. 5 One practised in all the five gymnastic
2 Pausan. i. 1. 5. Clarac, Music dt exercises.
Sculpture, iii. 466, 872. 6 Pausan. i.\. 11. 4.
3 Pausan. i. 20. 2. ' Ariphron of Sicyon :—
1 Ucule, Les Momma U'Alh
262. 1 1 T€0aAt