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BATHYCLES

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Originally appearing in Volume V03, Page 521 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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BATHYCLES  , an Ionian sculptor of See also:

Magnesia, was commissioned by the Spartans to make a See also:marble See also:throne for the statue of See also:Apollo at Amyclae, about 550 B.C . See also:Pausanias (iii . 18) gives us a detailed description of this See also:monument, which is of the greatest value to us, showing the See also:character of Ionic See also:art at the See also:time . It was adorned with scenes from See also:mythology in See also:relief and supporting figures in the See also:round . For a reconstruction, see See also:Furtwangler, Meisterwerke der griech . Plastik, p . 706 .

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