A guide to the principal gold and silver coins of the ancients ...

PERIOD n. 19
ing of details and a truer understanding of tlie anatomical
structure of the human body, and towards the close of
the period by greater freedom of movement, every effort
being then directed to realize ideal conceptions, a complete
mastery of technical skill having been attained
during the preceding transitional stage.
The chief sculptors with whose works the coins of this
period are contemporary are the following :
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Class a. Sicyon—Canachus and Aristocies.
^gina—Gallon and Onatas.
Argos—Ageladas, B.C. 508-452.
Rhegium—Pythagoras, before B.C. 450.
Athens—Calamis and Myron.
Class fi. Athens—Myron, Phidias, and Alcamenes.
Peloponnesus—Polycletus, Peeonius of Mende.
The principal extant works are :
Class^a. The sculptures of the Temple of Athena at JEginsL.
Munich. Casts in British Museum.
Class j8. Marble copy of Myron's Discobolus in the Palazzo
Massimi, Rome. Another in British Museum.
Parthenon sculptures. British Museum.
The sculptures of the Theseium and of the Temple of
Nike Apteros. Athens.
Sculptures of the Temple of Zeus. Olympia. Casts in
Berlin.
Metopes of the third temple at Selinus. Palermo.
The frieze of the Temple of Apollo at Phigaleia. British
Museum.
Caryatides of the Erechtheum. Athens. (One in the
British Museum.)
Marble copy of the Doryphoros of Polycletus. 'Naples.
Marble copies of the Diadumenos of Polycletus. British
Museum.
Victory by Pseonius, Olympia,
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