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According to Pliny's Natural History, Myron's most famous works included "heifer, a dog (canem, Cerberus?), a Perseus, a satyr admiring the flute and Minerva (Athena), a Hercules, which was taken to the shrine dedicated by Pompey the Great at the Circus Maximus, Discobolus (the discus thrower), and an Apollo for Ephesus, "which Antony the ...
Roman bronze reproduction of Myron's Discobolus, 2nd century AD (Glyptothek, Munich) 3D model of a replica at National Gallery of Denmark, Denmark.. The Discobolus by Myron ("discus thrower", Greek: Δισκοβόλος, Diskobólos) is an ancient Greek sculpture completed at the start of the Classical period in around 460–450 BC that depicts an ancient Greek athlete throwing a discus.
The sculpture is mentioned twice in the ancient sources. Pausanias writes: “In this place is a statue of Athena striking Marsyas the Silenus for taking up the flutes that the goddess wished to be cast away for good.” [1] Pliny records: “His other works include Ladas and a ‘Discobolos’ or Man Throwing a Discus, and Perseus, and The Sawyers, and The Satyr Marvelling at the Flute and ...
Discovered by Anthony Blunt in 1933 and bought by the Museum on his death: Cambridge, Fitzwilliam Museum: 239/9 Landscape with Hagar and the Angel: 1660–1665 c. 100 x 75 cm: Discovered in 1960 by André Chastel: Rome, Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Antica, palazzo Barberini: 241/ Apollo and Daphne or Apollo in love with Daphne: 1664: 155 x 200 cm
Anthony In The Nude (1930) Copper City (1931) Wide Open Town (1931; reissued 1993) This Man Is My Brother (1932) The Flutter of an Eyelid (1933; reissued 2020) Out of Life (1934) The Sun Sets in the West (1935) The Sisters (1937) May Flavin (1938) Anne Minton's Life (1939) All of Their Lives (1941) The Family Way (1942) The Gambler Tales a Wife ...
Paul Myron Anthony Linebarger (July 11, 1913 – August 6, 1966) — known by his pen-name Cordwainer Smith — was an American author of science fiction. He was a US Army officer, a noted East Asia scholar, and an expert in psychological warfare. He was one of science fiction's more influential authors despite his early death at 53. [1]
Around 455 B.C., Myron, a sculptor of the transition, created his Discobolus, a work that already shows a more advanced degree of naturalism, and soon after, around 450 B.C., Polykleitos consolidated a new canon of proportions, a synthesis that convincingly expressed the beauty, harmony and vitality of the body and gave it an aspect of eternity ...
Myron Castleman, an executive in New York City, finds that he is reliving the same hour of the same day, over and over. His time loop starts at 12:01 PM and lasts until 1:00 PM, when he is somehow returned to the same place where he began the hour. 1975 Bid Time Return: Richard Matheson: A young man sees an old photograph of a woman.