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  2. Discobolus - Wikipedia

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    Roman bronze reproduction of Myron's Discobolus, 2nd century AD (Glyptothek, Munich) 3D model of a replica at National Gallery of Denmark, Denmark.. The Discobolus by Myron ("discus thrower", Greek: Δισκοβόλος, Diskobólos) is an ancient Greek sculpture completed at the start of the Classical period in around 460–450 BC that depicts an ancient Greek athlete throwing a discus.

  3. Myron - Wikipedia

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    Myron of Eleutherae (480–440 BC) (Ancient Greek: Μύρων, Myrōn) was an Athenian sculptor from the mid-5th century BC. [1] Alongside three other Greek sculptors, Polykleitos Pheidias, and Praxiteles, Myron is considered as one of the most important sculptors of classical antiquity. [2]

  4. Athena Marsyas Group - Wikipedia

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    The sculpture is mentioned twice in the ancient sources. Pausanias writes: “In this place is a statue of Athena striking Marsyas the Silenus for taking up the flutes that the goddess wished to be cast away for good.” [1] Pliny records: “His other works include Ladas and a ‘Discobolos’ or Man Throwing a Discus, and Perseus, and The Sawyers, and The Satyr Marvelling at the Flute and ...

  5. Ancient Greek sculpture - Wikipedia

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    Natural marble. By the classical period, roughly the 5th and 4th centuries BC, monumental sculpture was composed almost entirely of marble or bronze; with cast bronze becoming the favoured medium for major works by the early 5th century BC; many pieces of sculpture known only in marble copies made for the Roman market were originally made in bronze.

  6. Classical sculpture - Wikipedia

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    Leochares: Apollo Belvedere.Roman copy of 130–140 AD after a Greek bronze original of 330–320 BC. Vatican Museums. Classical sculpture (usually with a lower case "c") refers generally to sculpture from Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome, as well as the Hellenized and Romanized civilizations under their rule or influence, from about 500 BC to around 200 AD.

  7. Boxer at Rest - Wikipedia

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    The Boxer at Rest, also known as the Terme Boxer, Seated Boxer, Defeated Boxer, or Boxer of the Quirinal, is a bronze sculpture, a Hellenistic Greek original, [1] of a sitting nude boxer at rest, still wearing his himantes (Ancient Greek: ἱμάντες, romanized: himántes, plural of ἱμάς, himás, 'a leathern strap or thong' [2]), a type of leather hand-wrap.

  8. As Myron Piggie rebuilds his life, he can’t shake the ... - AOL

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    Myron Piggie was born on March 7, 1961, in Kansas City, one of 12 children. At an early age, he was introduced to street life. When he was 20, an older brother was fatally shot.

  9. Apoxyomenos - Wikipedia

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    The Vatican Apoxyomenos by Lysippus, in the Museo Pio-Clementino, found in Trastevere, 1849.Height: 2.05 metres (6 feet 9 inches) Apoxyomenos (Greek: Αποξυόμενος, plural apoxyomenoi: [1] the "Scraper") is one of the conventional subjects of ancient Greek votive sculpture; it represents an athlete, caught in the familiar act of scraping sweat and dust from his body with the small ...