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

494 ARTISTS AND WORKS OF ART OF THIS PERIOD.

CHAPTER XLII.

ARTISTS AND WORKS OF ART OF THIS PERIOD
IN OTHER PARTS OF GREECE.

the germs of art which Nature scattered with so lavish a hand in
the minds and hearts of the ancient Greeks were ever ready to spring
up in luxuriant abundance whenever the sun of prosperity shone upon
them. In the period now under review many states of Greece,
hitherto occupying a subordinate position—as Mcsscnc, Arcadia,
Achaia, and Bceotia—came suddenly to the front and obtained inde-
pendence and political importance; and, as a natural consequence, the
names of artists belonging to these countries begin to appear in the
pages of history.

Messene.

Damophon of Mcsscnc flourished 01. 102 (n.c. 372), and was
therefore contemporary with Scopas, Praxiteles, and Lysippus. Pau-
sanias,1 who alone makes mention of him, says that he was the only
Messenian who produced works worthy of notice. We have already
referred to him in connexion with the Olympian Zeus which he re-
stored in a masterly way when the ivory had started. He chose his
subjects exclusively from the circle of the Gods, and his style was
probably in accordance with the serious cast of mind thus indicated.
He evidently enjoyed celebrity, and his works were set up in
Messene, Aigion (Achaia), and Megalopolis, the new metropolis
of Arcadia.

1 Pansan. iv. 31. 10.