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462 LEOCHARES OF ATHENS AND OTHER ARTISTS.

CHAPTER XXXIX.

LEOCHARES OF ATHENS (OL. in, B.C. 372), AND
OTHER ARTISTS}

Leg-chares has been already mentioned as one of the rising young
artists who were associated with Scopas in the plastic decoration of the
Mausoleum.2 lie is mentioned by Plato (Pseudo-Plato) in his epistles
as a new and excellent artist of whom he had bought an Apollo and
other works for the tyrant Dionysius.3 The favourite subjects of this
artist appear to have been chiefly sublime and ideal, for we find
mention of no less than three statues of Zeus by his hand, in which
probably the form of the great king of Gods and men was remodelled
in accordance with the ideas of the modern school. One of these,
which Pliny4 describes as 'ante cuncta laudabilcm,' was removed to
Rome and placed in the Capitol under the name of Jupiter TonanSi

Another was set up in the Acropolis at Athens by the side of
Zeus Polieus/1 and a third formed part of the group of Zeus and the
Demos of Peineeus, which stood behind a stoa on the shore of the
harbour of Peira;eus.G

He also executed three statues of Apollo, one of which stood in the
Ccraniicus at Athens, in front of the Temple of Apollo Alexikakos,7
in which was a temple-image of the God by Calamis ; another, the
Apollo of Syracuse, was sent from Athens to the tyrant Dionysius; and
a third, Apollo with the tccnia, is perhaps that to which Pausanias8

' We have no direct evidence that Leo-
chares was an Athenian. The inscription
on the Ganymede group at Elorence has
been shown to l>c spurious (Ilrunn, A'.-G.
3S5).

• Vide supra, p. 402.

3 Plato, Ep. xiii. p. 361.

1 jV. 11. xxxiv. 79. » Pausan, i. 24. 4.

,; [bid. i. 1. 3; i. 3. 4.

' I'lin. //. xxxiv. 79. « i. 8. 4.