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“In the 103rd Olympiad （368-5 B.C.） flourished Praxiteles, Euphranor..” Pliny Natural History: “... Praxiteles, too, whose work in marble was his most successful and therefore his most famous, produced, however, some extremely fine work in bronze...” Pliny Natural History: “Later, they dedicated other works in the Heraeum, including a Hermes in marble holding the infant Dionysus; this is the work of Praxiteles.1” Pausanias Description of Greece [on the temple of Hera at Olympia]
1 discovered there in 1877 and still to be seen at Olympia
Elegy and Iambus. with an English Translation by. J. M. Edmonds. Cambridge, MA. Harvard University Press. London. William Heinemann Ltd. 1931. 2.
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