CEPHISODOTUS

sĕfĭsŏˈdətəs, Gr. Kephisodotos, fl. 4th cent. b.c., two Greek sculptors. The elder, the master and probably the father or the brother of Praxiteles, is noted for the statue Irene and Plutus [Peace and Wealth]. The original was erected on the Areopagus at Athens c.372 b.c. to celebrate the victory of Timotheus over the Spartans. The best copy is in Munich. Cephisodotus, the Younger, a son of Praxiteles, continued the Praxitelean tradition into the early 3d cent. b.c.

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Isaeus
Book by Isaeus, Michael Edwards; University of Texas Press, 2007
Subjects: Forensic Orations--Greece--Athens, Inheritance And Succession (Greek Law)--Sources, Inheritance And Succession--Greece--Athens--Sources, Isaeus--Ca. 420-Ca. 350 B.C--Translations Into English, Speeches, Addresses, Etc., Greek--Translations Into English
...had left her, and also robbed the mother of Cephisodotus and Cephisodotus himself of everything they had.26 io He was...further Edwards 2002. 26PO-II indicate that Cephisodotus was not an only child, and some words may have...
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Classical Cynicism: A Critical Study
Book by Luis E. Navia; Greenwood Press, 1996
Subjects: Cynics (Greek Philosophy)
...mentioned: "Antisthenes compared the lean Cephisodotus to frankincense, because it was his...pleasure." We have no idea as to who Cephisodotus was, but we know that such a remark...disappearance from this world of the thin Cephisodotus, a worthless man in Antisthenes eyes...
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Singular Dedications: Founders and Innovators of Private Cults in Classical Greece
Book by Andrea Purvis; Routledge, 2003
Subjects: Cults--Greece--History, Greece--Religion, Xenophon--Religion
...the shrine. The relationship between Cephisodotus and Xenocratia is likewise unknown...set of reliefs and the allusion to Cephisodotus in the inscription a sufficient record...hypothesis put forth here is correct, Cephisodotus was perhaps unusual in allowing his
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Ancient Literary Criticism: The Principal Texts in New Translations
Book by D. A. Russell, M. Winterbottom; Clarendon Press, 1972
Subjects: Classical Literature--History And Criticism--Theory, Etc, Criticism--Greece, Criticism--Rome
...let Greece lose one of her two eyes. Cephisodotus, when Chares was eager to pass his...locked him in a pillory of disease. And Cephisodotus called the warships gaily painted millstones...kind of metaphor and vivid. And as Cephisodotus urged them to beware of meeting in...
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Isaeus
Book by Edward Seymour M. A. Forster; W. Heinemann, 1927
Subjects: Isaeus--Ca. 420-Ca. 350 B.C
...11. had left her; and robbed the mother of Cephisodotus and Cephisodotus himself of all they possessed. For of these...Dicaeogenes II. , he sent the latters nephew Cephisodotus with his own brother Harmodius to Corinth a as...
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Cephisodotus
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
CEPHISODOTUS sefiso d t s, Gr. Kephisodotos, fl. 4th cent. b.c., two Greek...victory of Timotheus over the Spartans. The best copy is in Munich. Cephisodotus, the Younger, a son of Praxiteles, continued the Praxitelean tradition...
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Praxiteles
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PRAXITELES praksit lez, fl. c.370 c.330 b.c., famous Attic sculptor, probably the son of Cephisodotus . His Hermes with the Infant Dionysus, found in the Heraeum, Olympia, in 1877, is the only example of an undisputed extant...


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