Chæreas made statues of Alexander the Great and of his father Philip. Desilaüs[1484] made a Doryphoros[1485] and a wounded Amazon; and Demetrius[1486] a statue of Lysimache, who was priestess of Minerva sixty-four years. This statuary also made the Minerva, which has the name of Musica,[1487] and so called because the dragons on its Gorgon’s head vibrate at the sound of the lyre; also an equestrian statue of Simon, the first writer on the art of equitation.[1488] Dædalus,[1489] who is highly esteemed as a modeller in clay, made two brazen figures of youths using the body-scraper;[1490] and Dinomenes executed figures of Protesilaüs[1491] and Pythodemus the wrestler.
The statue of Alexander Paris is the work of Euphranor:[1492] it is much admired, because we recognize in it, at the same moment, all these characteristics; we see him as the umpire between the goddesses, the paramour of Helen, and yet the slayer of Achilles. We have a Minerva, too, by Euphranor, at Rome, known as the “Catulina,” and dedicated below the Capitol, by Q. Lutatius;[1493] also a figure of Good Success,[1494] holding in the right hand a patera, and in the left an ear of corn and a poppy. There is also a Latona by him, in the Temple of Concord,[1495] with the new-born infants Apollo and Diana in her arms. He also executed some brazen chariots with four and two horses, and a Cliduchus[1496] of beautiful proportions; as also two colossal statues, one representing Virtue, the other Greece;[1497] and a figure of a female lost in wonder and adoration: with statues of Alexander and Philip in chariots with four horses. Eutychides executed an emblematic figure of the Eurotas,[1498] of which it has been frequently remarked, that the work of the artist appears more flowing than the waters even of the river.[1499]
Hegias[1500] is celebrated for his Minerva and his King Pyrrhus, his youthful Celetizontes,[1501] and his statues of Castor and Pollux, before the Temple of Jupiter Tonans:[1502] Hegesias,[1503] for his Hercules, which is at our colony of Parium.[1504] Of Isidotus we have the Buthytes.[1505]
Lycius was the pupil[1506] of Myron: he made a figure representing a boy blowing a nearly extinguished fire, well worthy of his master, as also figures of the Argonauts. Leochares made a bronze representing the eagle carrying off Ganymede: the eagle has all the appearance of being sensible of the importance of his burden, and for whom he is carrying it, being careful not to injure the youth with his talons, even through the garments.[1507] He executed a figure, also, of Autolycus,[1508] who had been victorious in the contests of the Pancratium, and for whom Xenophon wrote his Symposium;[1509] the figure, also, of Jupiter Tonans in the Capitol, the most admired of all his works; and a statue of Apollo crowned with a diadem. He executed, also, a figure of Lyciscus, and one of the boy Lagon,[1510] full of the archness and low-bred cunning of the slave. Lycius also made a figure of a boy burning perfumes.