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Libon
An Elean, architect of temple of Zeus at Olympia.
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Libon. An architect of Elis, who built the temple of Olympian Zeus, in the sacred grove Altis, out of the proceeds of the spoil taken from the Pisaeans and some other people (Pausan. v. 10, 3). This temple was built in the Doric style, and it must have been erected about B.C. 444-440.
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Libon, an Eleian, was the architect of the great temple of Zeus in the Altis at
Olympia, which was built by the Eleians out of the spoils of Pisa and other neighbouring
cities, which had revolted from them, and had been again subdued (Paus. v. 10.
2 or 3). This event is believed to have occurred about 01. 50, B. C. 580 (Ib.
vi. 22, 2 or 4); but there is no reason to suppose that the temple was commenced
immediately, or even soon, after this date. It seems more probable that the temple
had not been very long completed when Phidias began to make in it his gold and
ivory statue of Zeus (01. 85. 4, B. C. 437). Allowing for the time which so magnificent
a work as this temple would occupy, we may safely place the architect's date somewhat
before the middle of the fifth century B. C. The temple itself is described by
Pausanias (v. 10). A few ruins of it remain. (Stanhope, Olympia, p. 9; Cockerell,
Bibl. Ital. 1831, No. 191, p. 205; Blonet, Expedition Scient. de la Moroe, livr.
11, pl. 62, foll.)
| This text is from: A dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology, 1873 (ed. William Smith). Cited Oct 2006 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains interesting hyperlinks |
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Aetion
Aetion. A celebrated painter, spoken of by Lucian (De Merced. Cond. 42, Herod. or Aetion, 4, &c., Imag. 7), who gives a description of one of his pictures, representing the marriage of Alexander and Roxana. This painting excited such admiration when exhibited at the Olympic games, that Proxenidas, one of the judges, gave the artist his daughter in marriage. Action seems to have excelled particularly in the art of mixing and laying on his colours. It has commonly been supposed that he lived in the time of Alexander the Great; but the words of Lucian (Herod. 4) shew clearly that he must have lived about the time of Hadrian and the Antonines.
| This text is from: A dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology, 1873 (ed. William Smith). Cited Sep 2005 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains interesting hyperlinks |
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Diotimus
Diotimus. Of Olympia, an author or collector of riddles (griphoi), is mentioned by one of the interlocutors in the Deipnosophistae of Athenaeus (x. p. 448, c.) as o hetairos hemon, and lived therefore at the beginning of the third century of our era.
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