Plutarch discusses Phidias' friendship with the Greek statesman Pericles, recording that enemies of Pericles tried to attack him through Phidias – who was accused...
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Statue of Zeus at Olympia (category Sculptures by Phidias)
giant seated figure, about 12.4 m (41 ft) tall, made by the Greek sculptor Phidias around 435 BC at the sanctuary of Olympia, Greece, and erected in the Temple...
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Congo, Cameroon, and Gabon. It contains the variety Tragocephala phidias var. rohdei. BioLib.cz - Tragocephala phidias. Retrieved 8 September 2014. v t e...
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Commons has media related to Leptomyrina phidias. Wikispecies has information related to Leptomyrina phidias. Leptomyrina at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera...
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Golden ratio (redirect from Mean of Phidias)
" After Classical Greek sculptor Phidias (c. 490–430 BC); Barr later wrote that he thought it unlikely that Phidias actually used the golden ratio. Sloane...
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the International Astronomical Union (IAU) in 1976. Phidias is named for the Greek artist Phidias, who lived from 490 to 430 BCE. Nearby craters include...
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Pentila phidia, the Ghana pentila, is a butterfly in the family Lycaenidae. It is found in central and eastern Ivory Coast, Ghana and Togo. The habitat...
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mostly found to agree (48). Dio now moves on to Phidias' statue of Zeus, presenting the scene as if Phidias were facing the audit (euthynai) which all public...
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Parthenon (category Sculptures by Phidias)
plyntrides, arrephoroi and kanephoroi. The colossal statue of Athena by Phidias was not specifically related to any cult attested by ancient authors and...
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alongside ritual sacrifices honouring both Zeus (whose famous statue by Phidias stood in his temple at Olympia) and Pelops (divine hero and mythical king...
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Wheatland County, Alberta (redirect from Phidias, Alberta)
Dunshalt Eagle Lake Gayford Grierson Grieseach Hamlet Hawick Makepeace Phidias Rosebud Creek Stobart Strangmuir Towers Tudor The following Hutterite colonies...
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Bunaeopsis phidias is a moth of the family Saturniidae. It is known from Africa, including Tanzania, Eritrea, Malawi and Zambia. The body of the male...
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best-known examples, both from the Classical period, are those sculpted by Phidias: the 13-metre tall (43 ft) standing statue of Athena Parthenos in the Parthenon...
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evolution in the 5th century B.C. In Athens, the main artistic figure was Phidias, but Classicism owes an equally important aesthetic contribution to Polykleitos...
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Athena Parthenos (category Sculptures by Phidias)
and Plutarch, the statue is not by Phidias alone but of a team of craftsmen representing several trades, Phidias supervising all the decoration work...
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Graphium phidias is a species of butterfly in the family Papilionidae (swallowtails). It is found in Laos and Vietnam. Jordan describes it - P. phidias Oberth...
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order of Pericles during the so-called Golden Age of Athens (460–430 BC). Phidias, an Athenian sculptor, and Ictinus and Callicrates, two famous architects...
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Pyrrhochalcia (redirect from Papilio phidias)
iphis Binomial name Pyrrhochalcia iphis (Drury, 1773) Synonyms Papilio iphis Drury, 1773 Papilio phidias Cramer, 1779 Papilio jupiter Fabricius, 1787...
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two of his closest associates, Phidias and his companion, Aspasia, faced a series of personal and judicial attacks. Phidias, who had been in charge of all...
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share under the direction of Phidias. He is said to be the most eminent sculptor in Athens after the departure of Phidias for Olympia, but enigmatic in...
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88, that is, from about 436 to 424 BC. He was a pupil of the sculptor Phidias. Only four of Agoracritus' works are mentioned: a statue of Zeus and one...
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Ancient Agora of Athens (section Phidias)
5th-century master Phidias and his associate Alkamenes, and the 4th-century sculptors Praxiteles, Bryaxis, and Euphranor. Phidias was the most well known...
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Statue of Zeus at Olympia 466–456 BC (temple) 435 BC (statue) Greeks (Phidias) 5th–6th centuries AD Disassembled and reassembled at Constantinople; later...
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Ludolphsche Zahl – Ludolph van Ceulen Mean of Phidias (golden ratio, ϕ {\displaystyle \phi } , phi) – Phidias Meissel–Mertens constant Moser's number Newtonian...
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enhanced by his having been the instructor of the three great masters, Phidias, Myron, and Polykleitos. The determination of the period when Ageladas...
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worked mainly in Athens, as a follower of Myron's school and in the post-Phidias period he brought elements of compactness due to the Peloponnesian period...
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known and we know the names of several Ancient Greek artists: for example, Phidias. With philology, archaeology, and art history, scholars seek understanding...
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List of minor planets: 4001–5000 (redirect from 4753 Phidias)
Myron September 29, 1973 Palomar PLS THM 12 km MPC · JPL 4753 Phidias 4059 T-3 Phidias October 16, 1977 Palomar PLS · 6.8 km MPC · JPL 4754 Panthoos...
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Nawahi Neruda Nureyev Nervo Neumann Nizami Okyo Oskison Ovid Petrarch Phidias Picasso Poe Polygnotus Praxiteles Prokofiev Qi Baishi Rachmaninoff Raden...
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status of sculpture itself. Even in ancient Greece, where sculptors such as Phidias became famous, they appear to have retained much the same social status...
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