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AGORACKITOS AND POLYCLEITOS. 265of the Temple of Nemesis at Bhamnus.— Presented by J. P.Gandy Deering, Esq., 1820.Parian marble; height, 1 foot 4J inches. Uned. Antiquities of Attica,p. 43 ; Leake, Athens and Demi of Attica, II., p. 108 ; Synopsis,No. 325 (273); £lgin Room Guide, II., No. E. 4; Six, Num.Chron. 3rd. Ser., II., p. 94 ; cf. coin of Cyprus, ibidem, pi. 5 ;Gardner, Joum. of Hellen. Studies, VIII., p. 47 ; Rossbach,Athenische Mittheilungen, XV., p. 64; Overbeck, Schriftquellen,834-843. .POLYCLEITOS OP ARGOS AND THE PELO-PONNESIAN SCHOOL.Polycleitos of Argos was, as has already been observed(p. 90), one of the great pupils of Ageladas of Argos, whowas also the master of Myron and perhaps of Pheidias.Nothing is recorded as to the life of Polycleitos; hisage, as compared with that of Pheidias, is not accuratelyknown. It is probable that he was rather younger thanPheidias, as he was working at a later date. Pliny givesthe 90th Olympiad, or 420 B.C., as the date of Polycleitos.This may be the date of his great statue of Hera at Argos,the older temple of Hera having been burnt in 422 B.C.,and it was probably near the end of the sculptor's life.No original works by the hand of Polycleitos survive,but several sculptures are known which can be shownwith probability to have been copied more or less directlyfrom originals, of which the character is thus ascertained.Polycleitos was famous in antiquity asthe author of amethodical system of proportions for the human form.One in particular of his figures, the Doryphoros, wasknown as the Canon, and was adopted as the ideal type ofa youthful male figure by later sculptors. This figure,and its companion the Diadumenos (see below, Nos. 500,501), are known to us from copies. They are of vigorous