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    The Discophoros, also spelled Discophorus (Greek – "Discus-Bearer"), was a bronze sculpture by the classical Greek sculptor Polyclitus, creator of the...
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    marble copies. Further sculptures attributed to Polykleitos are the Discophoros ("Discus-bearer"), Diadumenos ("Youth tying a headband") and a Hermes...
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    the 17th and 18th centuries to a standing figure holding a discus, a Discophoros, which Ennio Quirino Visconti identified as the Discobolus of Naukydes...
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    well-known ancient Greek statues and Roman copies such as the Discobolus and Discophoros. The discus throw also appears repeatedly in ancient Greek mythology...
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    pentathlon provided inspiration for large statues such as the Discobolus and Discophoros, and for motifs on countless vase and pottery works. Aristotle discussed...
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    those of his successors, Lysippos, Skopas, etc. The Polykletian statues (Discophoros ("discus-bearer") and Doryphoros ("spear-bearer"), for example) are idealized...
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    Discophoros, modeled after Naukydes....
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    Denmark Wikimedia Commons has media related to Doryphoros. Diadumenos Discophoros Warren G. Moon, ed. Polykleitos, the Doryphoros, and Tradition, 1995:...
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    Two other of his compositions are now also called "canonical": The Discophoros and the Diadumenos, as they are variations of the basic model. As for...
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  • Dipylon krater Dipylon Master Dirce Disciples of Plotinus Discobolus Discophoros Discourses of Epictetus Dissoi logoi Distyle Distyle in antis Dithyramb...
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