. The eastern nations and Greece. period of perfection wasPhidias. Myron, says the his-torian Holm, brought art to theverge of perfection, Phidias con-ducted it into the sanctuary was almost the only Greeksculptor whose name really livedin the memory and imagination ofthe Middle Ages. He was an Athe-nian and was bom about 488 Hedelighted in the beautiful myths andlegends of the heroic age, and fromthese often drew subjects for his art. Phidias being an architect as well as a sculptor, his patron Periclesgave into his hands the general superintendence of those magnificentbui
. The eastern nations and Greece. period of perfection wasPhidias. Myron, says the his-torian Holm, brought art to theverge of perfection, Phidias con-ducted it into the sanctuary was almost the only Greeksculptor whose name really livedin the memory and imagination ofthe Middle Ages. He was an Athe-nian and was bom about 488 Hedelighted in the beautiful myths andlegends of the heroic age, and fromthese often drew subjects for his art. Phidias being an architect as well as a sculptor, his patron Periclesgave into his hands the general superintendence of those magnificentbuildings with which the Athenians at just this time were adorning 1 Almost all the masterpieces of the Greek sculptors have perished ; they are knownto us only through copies. But to these copies is attributed by archaeologists a specialvalue, since they represent, in the language of Furtwangler, that pick of the master-pieces of the classical epoch which pleased ancient taste and connoisseurship in thetimes of the highest Fig. 122. Throwing the Discus, OR Quoit. (The Discobolus of Myron, Vatican Museum) For its age one of the most wonderfulof human works. — Percy Gardner 294 GREEK ARCHITECTURE AND SCULPTURE [§326 their city. It was his genius which, as already mentioned, created themarvelous figures of the pediments and of the frieze of the Parthenon.^The most celebrated of his colossal sculptures were the statueof the goddess Athena within the Parthenon and that of OlympianZeus in the temple at Olympia. The statue of Athena was aboutforty feet in height, and was constructed of ivory and gold, thehair, weapons, sandals, and drapery being of the latter material.
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