Reputation Myron worked almost exclusively in bronze and his fame rested principally upon his representations of athletes (including his iconic Diskobolos), in which he made a revolution, according to commentators in Antiquity, by introducing greater boldness of pose and a more perfect rhythm, subordinating the parts to the whole. His Greek name was traditionally Latinized Polycletus, but is also transliterated Polycleitus (Ancient Greek: Πολύκλειτος, Classical Greek Greek pronunciation: [polýkleːtos], "much-renowned") and due to iotacism in the transition from Ancient to Modern Greek, Polyklitos or Polyclitus. Praxiteles was the son of the sculptor Cephisodotus the Elder, and a younger contemporary of Scopas. Most of their work has been lost except as it survives in Roman and later copies.It is said about Lysippus that "while others had made men as they were, he had made them as they appeared to the eye." Lysippus is thought not to have had formal artistic training but was a prolific sculptor creating sculptures from tabletop size to colossus.5th C. BCE (High Classical Period) Myron of Eleutherae 5th C. BCE.—Early Classical Period An older contemporary of Phidias and Polyclitus, and, like them, also a pupil of Ageladas, Myron of Eleutherae (480–440 BCE) worked chiefly in bronze.
The strength and malleability of bronze allowed innovative sculptors like the Athenian Myron 12 and Polyclitus 13 of Argos to push the development of the free-standing statue to its physical limits. His most famous statue, which exists only in the form of copies by Roman artists, is the famous bronze figure of a disc thrower known as Discobolus (c.425 BCE). He sculpted Astragalizontes (Boys Playing at Knuckle Bones) which had a place of honor in the atrium of the Emperor Titus.c. A statue of Zeus at Olympia was made of ivory and gold and was ranked among one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World.Polyclitus (Polycleitus or Polykleitos) created a gold and ivory statue of Hera for the goddess's temple at Argos. Of the small bronzes many, and of the terra-cottas very many, have survived, but they were made by independent artists and did not copy contemporary statues closely. The cow was placed at the Athenian Acropolis between 420â417 BCE, then moved to the Temple of Peace at Rome and then the Forum Taurii in Constantinople. Most of their work has been lost except as it survives in Roman and later copies.Polyclitus is also known for his Doryphorus statue (Spear-bearer), which illustrated his book named canon (kanon), a theoretical work on ideal mathematical proportions for human body parts and on the balance between tension and movement, known as symmetry. Polykleitos was an ancient Greek sculptor in bronze of the 5th century BC. The fourth period, from about 480 to about 330 bc, is known as the Classical; its beginning is marked by the rise of the sculptors Myron, Phidias, and Polyclitus and the painter Polygnotus, and its end, by the work of Scopas, Praxiteles, and Lysippus. 493–430 BCE (High Classical Period)4th C. BCE (Late Classical Period)Myron can be approximately dated to the Olympiads of the victors whose statues he crafted (Lycinus, in 448, Timanthes in 456, and Ladas, probably 476).Polyclitus (Polycleitus or Polykleitos) created a gold and ivory statue of Hera for the goddess's temple at Argos.