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- Phidias or Pheidias (/ˈfɪdiəs/; Ancient Gr****: Φειδίας, Pheidias; c. 480 – c. 430 BC) was an Ancient Gr**** sculptor, painter, and architect, active in...
- the statue. According to Pausanias, "when the image was quite finished Pheidias pra**** the god to show by a sign whether the work was to his liking. Immediately...
- in the front line") was a colossal bronze statue of Athena sculpted by Pheidias, which stood between the Propylaea and the Parthenon on the Acropolis of...
- sculptor, active in the 5th century BCE. Alongside the Athenian sculptors Pheidias, Myron and Praxiteles, he is considered as one of the most important sculptors...
- South Stoa and the bouleuterion, whereas the palaestra, the workshop of Pheidias, the gymnasion, and the Leonidaion lie to the west. Olympia was also known...
- statue there. It included a crown of stags and little Nikes and was made by Pheidias after the Battle of Marathon (490 BC), crafted from a block of Parian marble...
- were often placed in the hands of larger deities. One such example is Pheidias's statue of Zeus at Olympia. According to Pausanias's Description of Greece...
- in the story may be the same one depicted coiled at Athena's feet in Pheidias's famous statue of the Athena Parthenos in the Parthenon. Many of the surviving...
- and more perfected.[citation needed] Chisholm 1911. Pausanias, v. 10.3. Pheidias translated John Galen Howard reprint 2005- Page 229 "While at Olympia,...
- after the Battle of Marathon. This was supposedly created by the artist Pheidias, though there is some disagreement among modern scholars whether this was...