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PELOPONNESIAN ART.
forces of mind and body were concentrated into one focus, as in the
Discobolus and the Ladas.
Polycleitus was an architect as well as a sculptor, and Pausanias
speaks in eulogistic terms of an odeum (theatre) built by him at
Epidaurus. ' For harmony and beauty,' he says, ' what artist will
venture to contend with Polycleitus ?' He was also especially cele-
brated as a caster of bronze, and for his skill in the toreutic art, which
includes both the working in gold and ivory, and the chasing of the
precious metals ; which arts he appears to have carried to the highest
perfection.1
Plin. N. H. xxxiv. 54. Strabo, viii. 372. Martial, viii. 51. 2. Statins, Sylv. ii. 2. 67.
PELOPONNESIAN ART.
forces of mind and body were concentrated into one focus, as in the
Discobolus and the Ladas.
Polycleitus was an architect as well as a sculptor, and Pausanias
speaks in eulogistic terms of an odeum (theatre) built by him at
Epidaurus. ' For harmony and beauty,' he says, ' what artist will
venture to contend with Polycleitus ?' He was also especially cele-
brated as a caster of bronze, and for his skill in the toreutic art, which
includes both the working in gold and ivory, and the chasing of the
precious metals ; which arts he appears to have carried to the highest
perfection.1
Plin. N. H. xxxiv. 54. Strabo, viii. 372. Martial, viii. 51. 2. Statins, Sylv. ii. 2. 67.