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- Glycon, also spelled Glykon (Ancient Gr****: Γλύκων Glýkōn, gen: Γλύκωνος Glýkōnos), was an ancient snake god. He had a large and influential cult within...
- ancient statue of Hercules made in the early third century AD and signed by Glykon, who is otherwise unknown; he was an Athenian but he may have worked in...
- such statue is a Roman copy of The Weary Herakles (Farnese Hercules), by Glykon, with heavy musculature typical of early third century Rome. Lysippos developed...
- VI, Halbband 12, Euxantios–Fornaces (1909) Band VII, Halbband 13, Fornax–Glykon (1910) Band VII, Halbband 14, Glykyrrhiza–Helikeia (1912) Band VIII, Halbband...
- great"). Moreover, in an accolade to the fighting prowess of the pankratiast Glykon from Pergamo, the athlete is described as "wide foot". The characterization...
- from antiquity: "When he was shown the most famous statues of Phidias and Glykon in order that he might use them as models, his only answer was to point...
- land and underwater. Of particular interest is a statue of the snake god Glykon, a fraudulent creation of a local entrepreneur during Roman imperial times...
- enlarged copy made in the early 3rd century AD and signed by a certain Glykon, from an original by Lysippos (or one of his circle) that would have been...
- Realencyclopädie der classischen Altertumswissenschaft, Band VII, Halbband 13, Fornax-Glykon (1910), pp. 1421–1422  This article incorporates text from a publication...
- Roman copy of Lysippus' Hercules (left) and copyist's signature (Glykon Athenaios epoiei, "Glycon the Athenian made [me]") on statue (right)...