Polycleitus · Atlas

in the texts

OrationsImperial · Greek

Greek sculptor named among the great artists who fashioned images of the gods.

such men were Pheidias and Alcamenes and Polycleitus, and besides Aglaophon and Polygnotus and Zeuxis, and earlier than they Daedalus.

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But Pheidias or Polycleitus you would not reasonably require to do anything more, but even these things are greater and more august than our handicraft.

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Nicomachean EthicsClassical · Greek

Statuary cited as exemplifying artistic wisdom.

The term Wisdom is employed in the arts to denote those men who are the most perfect masters of their art, for instance, it is applied to Pheidias as a sculptor and to Polycleitus as a statuary.

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De legendis gentilium librisLate Antiquity · Greek

Sculptor cited as maker of the Hera at Argos.

Or would Pheidias and Polycleitus, if they had been greatly proud of the gold and the ivory—of which the one made the Zeus for the Eleans, the other the Hera for the Argives—have been laughing-stocks, adorning themselves with another's wealth and forsaking their art, through which the gold itself was shown sweeter and more precious?

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ProtrepticusLate Antiquity · Greek

Greek sculptor named among makers of idol statues.

Let your Pheidias come, and your Polycleitus, and Praxiteles again, and Apelles, and all who pursue the menial crafts, earthy workers of earth.

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ProtagorasClassical · Greek

A celebrated sculptor from Argos, cited as an analogy in Socrates' questioning.

And suppose you had a mind to approach Polycleitus the Argive or Pheidias the Athenian and pay them a personal fee, and somebody asked you—What is it that you consider Polycleitus or Pheidias to be, that you are minded to pay them this money?

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MemorabiliaClassical · Greek

The sculptor named by Aristodemus as an example of admired human skill.

in sculpture, Polycleitus;

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