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 Edward Seymour M. A. Forster; W. Heinemann, 1927
Subjects: Isaeus--Ca. 420-Ca. 350 B.C
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Art and Literature in Fourth Century Athens
Book by T. B. L. Webster; University of London, Athlone Press, 1956
Subjects: Art And Literature, Art, Greek--History, Greece--Civilization, Greek Literature--History And Criticism
...Paestan vases. 373 Eirene of Cephisodotus. 370-60 Plato: middle to later...301 Zeno founds Stoic school. Cephisodotus II working. Portrait of Demetrius Poliorcetes...that which caused the erection of Cephisodotus Eirene and Plutus; private deification...
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The History of Greece - Vol. 5
Book by Ernst Curtius, Adolphus William Ward; C. Scribner & Company, 1871
Subjects: Greece--History
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Greek and Roman Sculpture in American Collections
Book by George H. Chase; Harvard University Press, 1924
Subjects: Sculpture, Greek, Sculpture, Roman, Sculpture--United States
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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 frequently attested proper name Cephisodotus (which appears also in the evidence...inscription on its base identifying a certain Cephisodotus, who claims that he "set up the altar...mentioned on the base of the other relief, Cephisodotus, is of the deme Boutadai, just outside...
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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 sculptors. The elder, the master and probably 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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Praxiteles
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
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 original...


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