1000 Classical Characters Briefly Described

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Polycletus

One of the celebrated statuaries of the ancient world. He was also a sculptor, an architect, and an artist in toreutic. He was somewhat younger than Phidias, and flourished about B. C. 452-412. Phidias was unsurpassed in making the images of the gods, Polycletus in those of men.

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