The Natural History of Pliny, Volume 6 (of 6)Pliny, the Elder
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The Natural History of Pliny, Volume 6 (of 6)
Pliny, the Elder
Natural history -- Pre-Linnean works
In addition to these, there are several other artists, of about equal
celebrity, but none of whom have produced any first-rate works;
Ariston,[1532] who was principally employed in chasing silver,
Callides, Ctesias, Cantharus of Sicyon,[1533] Diodorus, a pupil of
Critias, Deliades, Euphorion, Eunicus,[1534] and Hecatæus,[1535] all
of them chasers in silver; Lesbocles, also, Prodorus, Pythodicus, and
Polygnotus,[1536] one of the most celebrated painters; also two other
chasers in silver, Stratonicus,[1537] and Scymnus, a pupil of Critias.
I shall now enumerate those artists who have executed works of the same
class:— Apollodorus,[1538] for example, Antrobulus, Asclepiodorus, and
Aleuas, who have executed statues of philosophers. Apellas[1539] has
left us some figures of females in the act of adoration; Antignotus, a
Perixyomenos,[1540] and figures of the Tyrannicides, already mentioned.
Antimachus and Athenodorus made some statues of females of noble birth;
Aristodemus[1541] executed figures of wrestlers, two-horse chariots
with the charioteers, philosophers, aged women, and a statue of King
Seleucus:[1542] his Doryphoros,[1543] too, possesses his characteristic
gracefulness.
There were two artists of the name of Cephisodotus:[1544] the earlier
of them made a figure of Mercury nursing Father Liber[1545] when an
infant; also of a man haranguing, with the hand elevated, the original
of which is now unknown. The younger Cephisodotus executed statues
of philosophers. Colotes,[1546] who assisted Phidias in the Olympian
Jupiter, also executed statues of philosophers; the same, too, with
Cleon,[1547] Cenchramis, Callicles,[1548] and Cepis. Chalcosthenes
made statues of comedians and athletes. Daïppus[1549] executed a
Perixyomenos.[1550] Daïphron, Democritus,[1551] and Dæmon made statues
of philosophers.
Epigonus, who has attempted nearly all the above-named classes of
works, has distinguished himself more particularly by his Trumpeter,
and his Child in Tears, caressing its murdered mother. The Woman in
Admiration, of Eubulus, is highly praised; and so is the Man, by
Eubulides,[1552] reckoning on his Fingers. Micon[1553] is admired for
his athletes; Menogenes, for his four-horse chariots. Niceratus,[1554]
too, who attempted every kind of work that had been executed by
any other artist, made statues of Alcibiades and of his mother
Demarate,[1555] who is represented sacrificing by the light of torches.
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