Pheidias - in ancient sources @ attalus.org
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Pheidias
- Greek sculptor, 5th century B.C.
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to have been carved by Phidias from a block of marble
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} & On the Nemesis of Phidias The Persians first broug
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she, "are the Eros of Pheidias." [50.] And as I am awar
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knowledge. Would Zeuxis or Phidias or Polyclitus endure to
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early youth, like one of Pheidias's statues, was no sooner
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much rather have been a Pheidias, than the most skilful
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such a degree, that, like Phidias, he can make a statue
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the exquisite works of Phidias, or the splendid Piraeus,
Cic:Tusc_1.34
fame after death. Why did Phidias include a likeness of himself
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soft materials the works of Pheidias. [8] & Those, too
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Earth to show you His image, Pheidias, or you went to
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HOL.AR.,PAX.605 & "Pheidias began it, by doing wrong; then
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Daily testimony is borne to Phidias by Olympian Zeus and to
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them all stands the Athenian Pheidias, celebrated for the Statue of
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to it came that of Pheidias, third Cresilas's, fourth Cydon's and
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[54] Pheidias, besides the Olympian Zeus which
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carving sculpture, just as Pheidias is considered to have
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[72] Alcamenes a pupil of Pheidias made marble figures, and also
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Colotes who had co-operated with Pheidias in the Statue of Olympian
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it is said that even Phidias himself was a painter to
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[57] Indeed the brother of Phidias Panaenus even painted the Battle
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both of which arose with Pheidias in the 83rd Olympiad {448-445
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as Aphrodite of the Gardens. Pheidias himself is said to have
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good looks, and consequently Pheidias is said to have
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the Great Mother [18] That Pheidias is the most famous sculptor
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Panaenus, the brother of Pheidias, applied plaster that had
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a new religion. They endured Phidias when he affirmed that it
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[7e.4] Phidias also alluded to the verses
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he followed the example of Phidias, who included his own face
Pheidias 2
of Rhodes - a doctor, late 4th century B.C.
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Syll_335, an Athenian decree in honour of Pheidias, a doctor.
Pheidias
- in documents
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death the house of your father Pheidias. But the stone abo
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(c. 250-200) stokles . . . Pheidias son of Gnosiades → i
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