The statue of Zeus in his Temple was created by Pheidias, whom we call Phidias, and is one of the Seven Wonders of the World. From Wordnik.com. [See Delphi and Die]
Who then is a Stoic -- in the sense that we call a statue of Phidias which is modelled after that master's art?. From Wordnik.com. [The Golden Sayings of Epictetus] Reference
It had a splendor and majesty such as Phidias might have given to a woman Jupiter. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of the Innumerable Company, and Other Sketches] Reference
Who then is a Stoicin the sense that we call that a statue of Phidias which is modelled after that masters art?. From Wordnik.com. [LXXVIII] Reference
To the age of Phidias belong the sculptors Alcamenes. From Wordnik.com. [Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life] Reference
Phidias himself disdained or worked but little in marble. From Wordnik.com. [Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life] Reference
Phidias also executed other works in both bronze and marble. From Wordnik.com. [General History for Colleges and High Schools] Reference
Herodotus and Thucydides; and Phidias the unrivalled sculptor. From Wordnik.com. [Fathers of Biology] Reference
Phidias and Scopas, silver wrought by Mentor, vases made of gold. From Wordnik.com. [Saronia A Romance of Ancient Ephesus] Reference
At the entrance stood two small statues by Euphranor and Phidias. From Wordnik.com. [Saronia A Romance of Ancient Ephesus] Reference
= Ovid's description of the works of Apelles, Phidias, Calamis, and. From Wordnik.com. [The Last Poems of Ovid] Reference
Phidias himself would have preferred to have executed them in marble. From Wordnik.com. [Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life] Reference
Another remarkable statue of Phidias was the Athene Promachus, in the. From Wordnik.com. [Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life] Reference
This statue was made by the celebrated Phidias, and was 150 cubits high. From Wordnik.com. [A Museum for Young Gentlemen and Ladies Or, a Private Tutor for Little Masters and Misses] Reference
It was adorned by statues and monuments by Praxiteles, Phidias and Myron. From Wordnik.com. [A Fantasy of Mediterranean Travel] Reference
Phidias, which ranks second only to that of Zeus by the same great artist. From Wordnik.com. [Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome] Reference
Art was represented by the inimitable creations of Phidias and Polygnotus. From Wordnik.com. [General History for Colleges and High Schools] Reference
Among all the great sculptors of antiquity, Phidias stands pre - eminent. From Wordnik.com. [General History for Colleges and High Schools] Reference
Within the inner sanctuary Phidias placed his chryselephantine figure of Athena. From Wordnik.com. [A Fantasy of Mediterranean Travel] Reference
Ictinus, but the sculptures that adorned it were the work of the celebrated Phidias. From Wordnik.com. [General History for Colleges and High Schools] Reference
Ask Phidias, then, or ask of Rodin if before bits of his work men no longer say, "It is his!". From Wordnik.com. [New York Times Current History; The European War, Vol 2, No. 5, August, 1915] Reference
Sophocles and Euripides were contemporary with Pericles and Phidias; the same age witnessed the. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 363, January, 1846] Reference
She was of medium height, and her figure would have served as a model for the skill of a Phidias. From Wordnik.com. [The Kentucky Ranger] Reference
Athenian sculptor Phidias, which was forty feet high, and stood in the temple of Zeus at Olympia. From Wordnik.com. [Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome] Reference
There are two marble statues which have come down to us, and which give some idea of the Minervas of Phidias. From Wordnik.com. [Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life] Reference
Phidias was accused of having stolen part of the gold given him out of the public treasury for its decoration. From Wordnik.com. [Peace] Reference
There in the Parthenon are the sculptures of Phidias, and yonder in the temple of the Dioscuri, the paintings of. From Wordnik.com. [Education and the Higher Life] Reference
Museum, can lead us to appreciate the manner of Phidias, and the character of his school, so observed by Flaxman. From Wordnik.com. [Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life] Reference
They are chiefly ornaments from the Parthenon, a Doric temple built in the time of Pericles, B.C. 450, by Phidias. From Wordnik.com. [Young Americans Abroad Vacation in Europe: Travels in England, France, Holland, Belgium, Prussia and Switzerland] Reference
Minerva, executed by Phidias after the battle of Marathon, the height of which, including the pedestal, was sixty feet. From Wordnik.com. [The International Monthly Magazine, Volume 5, No. 1, January, 1852] Reference
He goes to the Parthenon to study the sculptures of Phidias; to the temple of the Dioscuri to see the paintings of Polygnotus. From Wordnik.com. [Harvard Classics Volume 28 Essays English and American] Reference
TRYGAEUS That, by Apollo! is what no one ever told me; I could not think what connection there could be between Phidias and Peace. From Wordnik.com. [Peace] Reference
They exhibit, however, exaggeration, and are wanting in that repose and beauty which are the characteristics of the works of Phidias. From Wordnik.com. [Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life] Reference
Pentelicus, the gold and ivory of the Olympian Jove; tear from the brow of Phidias the laurel wreath with which the world has crowned him. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2, No 3, September, 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy.] Reference
In passing the steps, she beheld the statue by Phidias, and her love for the beautiful prompted her to steal forward and take a hasty look. From Wordnik.com. [Saronia A Romance of Ancient Ephesus] Reference
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