Smith, Arthur H.; British Museum <London> / Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities [Hrsg.]: A Catalogue of the sculptures of the Parthenon, in the British Museum (London, 1900)

PART II.

MYRON AND PHEIDIAS.

Three great names represent the prime of Greek sculp-
ture in the fifth century b.c, those of Myron, Pheidias,
and Polycleitos of Argos. These three are all said to
have been pupils of the Argive sculptor Agelaidas. In
the case of Polycleitos, recent critics held that on
chronological grounds he could only be supposed to have
inherited the traditions of that master's school. It has,
however, now been ascertained (Oxyrhynchus Papyri, ii.,
p. 94) that he was working in the middle of the fifth
century.

The present part of the catalogue deals with Myron and
Pheidias. The following part deals first with their
immediate successors in Attica, and then turns to
Polycleitos of Argos and the sculptures of the Peloponnese;
and next to tho special class of Greek reliefs.

MYRON.

Myron of Eleutherae in Attica worked at Athens in
the first half of the fifth century b.c. Although he had
not entirely abandoned the archaic style (notably, in his
rendering of hair, Pliny, M. N. xxxiv., 58), he was distin-
guished for his skill in representing life. His power lay
partly in the rendering of vigorous movement in sculp-
ture, as in his athletic statues, and partly in a realistic
imitation of nature, as in his famous cow.

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