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APOLLO CLTHARQZDUS.
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Persians when they landed at Marathon. After the victory of the Greeks
the estimation in which the Goddess was held, as the guardian of
moderation and the avenger of wrong,
was greatly increased, and a second
temple, of marble, was built about 01.
78. 1 (b.c. 432), for which Scopas, some
years later, made a statue of Apollo?
This work was removed to Rome by
Octavian after the battle of Actium, and
dedicated by him, in the famous tem-
ple of the god on the Palatine,2 under
the name of Apollo Palatums or
Actius.3 It formed part of a group
with a statue of Artemis by Timo-
thcus and of Lcto by Cephisodotus
the younger, the son of Praxiteles.4
It is a matter of dispute whether the
so-called Apollo Citharadus (fig. 163)—
discovered in the villa of Cassius at
Tivoli, and now in the Vatican,5—is a atollo othawkdus.
copy of the work of Scopas, of which we probably have a remini-
scence in coins of Delphi (fig. 164). The citharcedus (harp-player)
m the latter is evidently intended for Nero him- j.-1G. ^4.
sclf.'; The fact that the figures on the coins differ
considerably from one another proves that they
arc not exact copies ; but the style of the Vatican
statue accords very closely with our idea of Scopas'
manner. The general design of this grand and strik-
ing figure is not unworthy of a great artist,and bears C0IH op Delphi,
the stamp of originality. Hitherto Apollo had been generally repre-
sented nude, and in his calmer and more dignified mood. In the work
1 Plin. N. //. xxxvi. 25. 5 Sdi &B* Crocc Greca, No. 5S2. Over-
' Completed a.u.c.'726. l>eck (Get. d. PI. ii. 19) rather favours Vis-
3 This is the reason why this temple is conti's opinion that the Vatican Apollo is a
""ed '/Kdes Apollinis Khamnusii' in the copy of a later Greek original by Timar-
Cu'iosum Urbis A'oriur. Yid. Urlichs, chides.
&Ko/>as, &c p. 67. « ML * Sueton. AWo, c. 25.
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Persians when they landed at Marathon. After the victory of the Greeks
the estimation in which the Goddess was held, as the guardian of
moderation and the avenger of wrong,
was greatly increased, and a second
temple, of marble, was built about 01.
78. 1 (b.c. 432), for which Scopas, some
years later, made a statue of Apollo?
This work was removed to Rome by
Octavian after the battle of Actium, and
dedicated by him, in the famous tem-
ple of the god on the Palatine,2 under
the name of Apollo Palatums or
Actius.3 It formed part of a group
with a statue of Artemis by Timo-
thcus and of Lcto by Cephisodotus
the younger, the son of Praxiteles.4
It is a matter of dispute whether the
so-called Apollo Citharadus (fig. 163)—
discovered in the villa of Cassius at
Tivoli, and now in the Vatican,5—is a atollo othawkdus.
copy of the work of Scopas, of which we probably have a remini-
scence in coins of Delphi (fig. 164). The citharcedus (harp-player)
m the latter is evidently intended for Nero him- j.-1G. ^4.
sclf.'; The fact that the figures on the coins differ
considerably from one another proves that they
arc not exact copies ; but the style of the Vatican
statue accords very closely with our idea of Scopas'
manner. The general design of this grand and strik-
ing figure is not unworthy of a great artist,and bears C0IH op Delphi,
the stamp of originality. Hitherto Apollo had been generally repre-
sented nude, and in his calmer and more dignified mood. In the work
1 Plin. N. //. xxxvi. 25. 5 Sdi &B* Crocc Greca, No. 5S2. Over-
' Completed a.u.c.'726. l>eck (Get. d. PI. ii. 19) rather favours Vis-
3 This is the reason why this temple is conti's opinion that the Vatican Apollo is a
""ed '/Kdes Apollinis Khamnusii' in the copy of a later Greek original by Timar-
Cu'iosum Urbis A'oriur. Yid. Urlichs, chides.
&Ko/>as, &c p. 67. « ML * Sueton. AWo, c. 25.
c c