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THE SCHOOL OF MYRON.
the Altis at Olympia, is a semicircular basis, in the centre of
which stood an image of Zeus, and on either side of him Thetis
and Eos (Hemera, Aurora), supplicating him on behalf of their
respective children. The combatants themselves, Achilles and
Memnon, who have not yet joined battle, stood at each end of the
long pedestal, and the other figures were arranged in symmetrical
antithesis —Greeks to Barbarians—between the two mothers and their
sons. Odysseus was balanced by Helenas, as the wisest of the Trojans ;
Alexander (Paris) by Menelaus, as pre-eminent in hatred ; Aineas by
Diomede ; and Deiphobus by the Telamunian Ajax. Below the statue
of Zeus were elegiac verses in ancient characters, from which we learn
that this group was dedicated by the citizens of Apollonia for a
victory.1 On this occasion, probably Lycius had his subject chosen for
him, and may or may not have treated it in the Myronic manner.
The next work by Lycius mentioned by Pausanias is
The Boy with the Perirranterionj2 probably the basin of lus-
tral water, though the word Trspippavr/jpiov properly means the
whisk, or brush, with which the water was sprinkled about, as in
Roman Catholic churches at the present day. This statue stood
near the Temple of the Brauronian Artemis in Athens, and the
basin of holy water may have been actually used by her worship-
pers. A still more Myronic subject was that of another work of
Lycius,
A Boy Blowing an Expiring Fire, which Pliny declares to be
' worthy of his teacher,'3 and which he mentions again under the
name of 1 pucr suffitor,' boy holding a censer.
Lycius also executed a statue of
Autolyeus, a Pancratiast, whom Xenophon in the ' Symposion'
praises as a well-educated Athenian boy.1 Pausanias5 says that he had
seen a statue of Autolyeus the Pancratiast in the Prytancium at Athens,
1 Pausan. v. 22. 2.
s Ibid. i. 23. 8.
3 Plin. xxxiv. 79: ' Puerimi snfllantem
languidos ignes.' At the end of the same
chapter he speaks of the same statue pro-
bably as ' putruni stipitonm,' holding a
censer. IJrunn, Kibtsllcr-Gcs. i. 259.
* Plin. N. If. xxxiv. 79: ' Autolycum
pancratii victorem, 01. S9. 3 (422 B.C)
propter quern Xenophon symposium scripsit.'
Pausan. ix. 32. 8.
4 Plin. ibid,
THE SCHOOL OF MYRON.
the Altis at Olympia, is a semicircular basis, in the centre of
which stood an image of Zeus, and on either side of him Thetis
and Eos (Hemera, Aurora), supplicating him on behalf of their
respective children. The combatants themselves, Achilles and
Memnon, who have not yet joined battle, stood at each end of the
long pedestal, and the other figures were arranged in symmetrical
antithesis —Greeks to Barbarians—between the two mothers and their
sons. Odysseus was balanced by Helenas, as the wisest of the Trojans ;
Alexander (Paris) by Menelaus, as pre-eminent in hatred ; Aineas by
Diomede ; and Deiphobus by the Telamunian Ajax. Below the statue
of Zeus were elegiac verses in ancient characters, from which we learn
that this group was dedicated by the citizens of Apollonia for a
victory.1 On this occasion, probably Lycius had his subject chosen for
him, and may or may not have treated it in the Myronic manner.
The next work by Lycius mentioned by Pausanias is
The Boy with the Perirranterionj2 probably the basin of lus-
tral water, though the word Trspippavr/jpiov properly means the
whisk, or brush, with which the water was sprinkled about, as in
Roman Catholic churches at the present day. This statue stood
near the Temple of the Brauronian Artemis in Athens, and the
basin of holy water may have been actually used by her worship-
pers. A still more Myronic subject was that of another work of
Lycius,
A Boy Blowing an Expiring Fire, which Pliny declares to be
' worthy of his teacher,'3 and which he mentions again under the
name of 1 pucr suffitor,' boy holding a censer.
Lycius also executed a statue of
Autolyeus, a Pancratiast, whom Xenophon in the ' Symposion'
praises as a well-educated Athenian boy.1 Pausanias5 says that he had
seen a statue of Autolyeus the Pancratiast in the Prytancium at Athens,
1 Pausan. v. 22. 2.
s Ibid. i. 23. 8.
3 Plin. xxxiv. 79: ' Puerimi snfllantem
languidos ignes.' At the end of the same
chapter he speaks of the same statue pro-
bably as ' putruni stipitonm,' holding a
censer. IJrunn, Kibtsllcr-Gcs. i. 259.
* Plin. N. If. xxxiv. 79: ' Autolycum
pancratii victorem, 01. S9. 3 (422 B.C)
propter quern Xenophon symposium scripsit.'
Pausan. ix. 32. 8.
4 Plin. ibid,