EUTYCHIDES

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EUTYCHIDES , of

Sicyon

SICYON, or SECYON (the latter being the older form used by the natives)

in Achaea,

Greek

GREEK
GREEK, ETRUSCAN AND

'sculptor of the latter

part

PART

of the 4th

century

CENTURY (from Lat. centuria, a division of a hundred men)

B.C., was a

pupil

PUPIL (Lat. pupillus, orphan, minor, dim. of pupus, boy, allied to puer, from root pm- or peu-, to beget, cf. "pupa," Lat. for " doll," the name given to the stage intervening between the larval and imaginal stages in certain insects)

of Lysippus. His most noted

work

WORK

was a statue of Fortune, which he made for the city of Antioch, then newly founded. The goddess, who embodied the

idea

IDEA (Gr. Ibia, connected with i&eiv, to see; cf. Lat. species from specere, to look at)

of the city, was seated on a

rock

ROCK
ROCK (O.Fr. rake, Sp. rota, Ital. rocca; possibly from a Lat. form rupica, from rupes, rock)
DANIEL
_1799187t_.html">ROCK,
DANIEL
- DANIEL
- DANIEL (DANIL)
- DANIEL, BOOK
- DANIEL, GABRIEL (1649-1728)
(1799–187t)

, crowned with towers, and having the river Orontes at her feet. There is a small copy of the statue in the Vatican (see

GREEK

GREEK
GREEK, ETRUSCAN AND

ART). It was imitated by a number of Asiatic cities; and indeed most statues of cities since erected

borrow

BORROW, GEORGE HENRY (18o3-1881)

something from the

work

WORK

of Eutychides.

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