. Doryphorus, after Polyclitue. (Naples.) hand holding the symbolical pomegranate, andthe other a sceptre, surmounted by a cuckoo, abird sacred to Hera (Paus. ii. 17, 4). This statuewas accepted as fixing the type of Hera, just asthe great statues ofPhidias at Olympiaand Athens fixedthe types of Zeusand Athene. [Seethe head of theFarnese Hera onp. 393.] It is no-ticed of Polyclitusthat he particu-larly adopted theattitude of restingon one foot withthe other morelightly pressed(Plin. xxxiv. 56), soas to give an easyand- graceful pose.
. Doryphorus, after Polyclitue. (Naples.) hand holding the symbolical pomegranate, andthe other a sceptre, surmounted by a cuckoo, abird sacred to Hera (Paus. ii. 17, 4). This statuewas accepted as fixing the type of Hera, just asthe great statues ofPhidias at Olympiaand Athens fixedthe types of Zeusand Athene. [Seethe head of theFarnese Hera onp. 393.] It is no-ticed of Polyclitusthat he particu-larly adopted theattitude of restingon one foot withthe other morelightly pressed(Plin. xxxiv. 56), soas to give an easyand- graceful grace of formhe excelled, so thatQuintilian noticesthat he gave idealbeauty to the hu-man form, but didnot express thefull grandeur andmajesty of the di-vine (xii. 10, 7).In this, no doubt,he contrasts himwith Phidias. His. Marble copy of the Amazon ofPolyclitus. Berlin Museum.) finish was perfect, a point in which Ciceroregarded him as unsurpassed (Brut. 18, 70).With the exception of the Hera, the statues ofPolyclitus were in bronze. It is possible to POLYCEATES POLYDORUS 739 judge of the form of some of them from marblecopies. Of these the most generally recognisedare the Doryphorus, the Diadumenus and theAmazon. In the department of toreutic, thefame of Polyclitus no doubt rested chiefly onthe golden ornaments of his statue of Hera;but he also made small bronzes (sigilla), anddrinking-vessels (jphialae).—2. The Younger,also a sculptor of Argos, of whom very little isknown, because his fame was eclipsed by thatof his more celebrated namesake. His workmay be dated about 400-365 He waspupil, and younger brother or nephew, ofNaucydes. His statues were mainly of athletes,set up at Olympia, where the inscribed bases oftwo have recently been discovered. (Paus. , 8, vi. 6, 1, vi. 7, 3.) Pausanias
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