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LYSISTRATUS

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Originally appearing in Volume V17, Page 184 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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LYSISTRATUS  , a See also:

Greek sculptor of the 4th See also:century B.C., See also:brother of See also:Lysippus of See also:Sicyon . We are told by See also:Pliny (Nat . Hist . 35, 153) that he followed a strongly realistic See also:line, being the first sculptor to take impressions of human faces in See also:plaster .

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