Perry, Walter Copland: Greek and Roman sculpture: a popular introduction to the history of Greek and Roman sculpture (London, 1882)

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system of barriers connected with the chariot-races—at Olympia, as is
recorded in elegiac verses on the base of one of his statues at
Athens.1

NlCODAMUS OF M^nalus (ARCADIA),
01. 90 (b.c. 420),

who executed a statue of Athene',1 standing erect, with helmet and
aegis ; two statues of Heracles as a boy, in one of which he is repre-
sented as shooting the Nemean lion.3

Callicles of Megara,

01. 100 (b.c. 380),

the son of Theocosmus of Megara, the sculptor of an iconic statue of
the great descendant of Heracles, Diagoras of Rhodes, surnamcd
' the victorious,' who enjoyed the rare honour of being a irspiohoviK^s
(victor at all four Greek festivals). The seventh Olympian ode of
Pindar, written in his honour, was inscribed in letters of gold on the
Temple of Athene at Cnidos in Rhodes.4

Apellas the Peloponnesian,

01. 100 (b.c. 388),

son of Calliclcs, and grandson of Theocosmus of Megara, as has
been established on the ground of inscriptions recently discovered
in Olympia.5 Apellas made statues of philosophers, and women

1 Pausan. vi. 24. 14. Conf. Stonhope,
Olympia, and C. T. Newton, £1/111. Rev.
Jan. 1879.

* Beside the ' Young Heracles ' of the Capi-
tol, there is a ' Boy //cracks' in Lansdowne
House. Ageladas had previously made a

beardless Heracles (I'atts. vii. 24. 2).

2 For other statues by Nicodannis vid.
Patts. vi. 6. 1 ; v. 26. 6; 25. 7 ; vi. 0. 3; 3. 9.

4 Schol. I'iml. p. 15S, lioeclih.

5 Brunn, op.cit. p. 484. Conf. Furtwangler,
Arch, Zcit. 1880, p. 152.