PRAXIAS
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PRAXIAS and ANDROSTHENES, Greek sculptors, who are said by Pausanias (x. 19, 4) to have executed the pediments of the temple of Apollo at Delphi. Both were Athenians; Praxias a pupil See Also: - 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 Calamis . The statement raises historic difficulties, as, according to the leaders of the recent French excavations at Delphi, the temple of Apollo was destroyed about 373 B.C. and rebuilt by 339 B.C., a date which seems too late for the lifetime of a pupil See Also: - 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 Calamis . In any case no fragments of the pediments of this later temple have been found, and it has been suggested that they were removed bodily to Rome.
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