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THE SCHOOL OF MYRON.
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CHAPTER XXVIII.
THE SCHOOL OF MYRON.
UNRIVALLED and predominant as were the genius and influence of
Pheidias in Athens, and, in a less degree, throughout Greece, we shall
not be surprised to find at the same period traces of other schools of
a different character, and with somewhat different aims. So really
great and prolific an artist as Myron, whose works were, by the very
nature of their subjects, peculiarly calculated to attract the public
eye, could not be without enthusiastic followers and imitators. And
in fact we recognise his style even in some of the sculptures of the
Parthenon itself. Among the best known members of his school is
Lycius of ElEUTHER/E,
About Ol. 90 (B.C. 420),
who is sometimes called the son,1 and sometimes only the pupil,2 of
Myron.
Although we have no remains or copies of his works, we gather
from descriptions of them that he followed in the footsteps of his
preceptor. His chief work was a group of thirteen figures in bronze,
representing the single combat between the Dis geniti Acliillcs and
Memtton* in the treatment of which the sculptor probably fol-
lowed the yEthiopis of Arctinus.4 Near the Hippodamcion, in
1 Pausan. i. 23. 7. Allien, xi. p. 486, D.
2 Plin. N. //. xxxiv. 79.
s Pindar, 01. ii. 83 (ed. Dyssen), and
AV//;. iii. 63, vi. 52. Conf. the same scene
depicted on the fine ' red on black ' crater
in the lirit. Mus. (Table-case I, No. 121).
4 Conf. Welcker, Ep. Cyd. i. 212 and ii.
169.
333
CHAPTER XXVIII.
THE SCHOOL OF MYRON.
UNRIVALLED and predominant as were the genius and influence of
Pheidias in Athens, and, in a less degree, throughout Greece, we shall
not be surprised to find at the same period traces of other schools of
a different character, and with somewhat different aims. So really
great and prolific an artist as Myron, whose works were, by the very
nature of their subjects, peculiarly calculated to attract the public
eye, could not be without enthusiastic followers and imitators. And
in fact we recognise his style even in some of the sculptures of the
Parthenon itself. Among the best known members of his school is
Lycius of ElEUTHER/E,
About Ol. 90 (B.C. 420),
who is sometimes called the son,1 and sometimes only the pupil,2 of
Myron.
Although we have no remains or copies of his works, we gather
from descriptions of them that he followed in the footsteps of his
preceptor. His chief work was a group of thirteen figures in bronze,
representing the single combat between the Dis geniti Acliillcs and
Memtton* in the treatment of which the sculptor probably fol-
lowed the yEthiopis of Arctinus.4 Near the Hippodamcion, in
1 Pausan. i. 23. 7. Allien, xi. p. 486, D.
2 Plin. N. //. xxxiv. 79.
s Pindar, 01. ii. 83 (ed. Dyssen), and
AV//;. iii. 63, vi. 52. Conf. the same scene
depicted on the fine ' red on black ' crater
in the lirit. Mus. (Table-case I, No. 121).
4 Conf. Welcker, Ep. Cyd. i. 212 and ii.
169.