Polyclitus
historical figure · 4 works · 4 mentions · 4 anchored passages
in the texts
Lucullus
Famous sculptor cited as an example of skill (art) that does not depend on Stoic 'knowledge'.
Or would Zeuxis, or Phidias, or Polyclitus have endured this — that they knew nothing, when in them there was such great skill?
On Moral Ends
Renowned Greek sculptor
But let us survey in our minds not these greatest arts — for lacking which men were by our ancestors called good-for-nothing — but I ask whether you think that — I do not say Homer, Archilochus, Pindar, but Phidias, Polyclitus, Zeuxis directed their arts to pleasure.
Stoic Paradoxes
Sculptor whose statue is cited as an object of the addressee's slavish fascination.
a painting of Aëtion holds you stupefied, or some statue of Polyclitus;
Tusculan Disputations
Renowned Greek sculptor.
Do we suppose that, had it been counted to the credit of Fabius, a man of the noblest birth, that he could paint, we too should not have had many a Polyclitus and Parrhasius?