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CRITIUS and NESIOTES, two See also:Greek sculptors of uncertain school, of the See also:time of the See also:Persian See also:Wars . When See also:Xerxes carried away to See also:Persia the statues of See also:Harmodius and Aristogiton made by See also:Antenor, Critius and Nesiotes were commissioned to replace them . By the help of coins and reliefs, two statues at See also:Naples, wrongly restored as See also:gladiators, have been identified as copies of the tyrannicides of Critius; and to them well apply the words in which See also:Lucian (Rhetor. praecepta, 9) describes the See also:works of Critius and Nesiotes, " closely knit and sinewy, and hard and severe in outline." Critius also made a statue of the armed runner Epicharinus . |
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