
(from the article `Myron`) ...for his many studies of athletes in action. Of his many works, only two representations positively survive: the group of Athena and Marsyas, ... ...time, more commonly bronze than marblethe works of Myron (of Eleutherae, in Attica), identified through copies, were among the most celebrated of ... [...
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Another name for an athlete throwing a discus.
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