PAEONIUS  , of See also:

• MENDE

Mende in See also:

• THRACE

Thrace, a See also:

• GREEK
• GREEK, ETRUSCAN AND

Greek sculptor of the latter See also:

• PART

part of the 5th See also:

• CENTURY (from Lat. centuria, a division of a hundred men)

century . The statement of See also:

• PAUSANIAS

Pausanias that he executed one of the pediments of the See also:

• TEMPLE
• TEMPLE, FREDERICK (1821-1902)
• TEMPLE, RICHARD
• TEMPLE, SIR RICHARD, BART
• TEMPLE, SIR WILLIAM, BART

temple of See also:

• ZEUS

Zeus at See also:

• OLYMPIA

Olympia is rejected by critics . But we possess an important See also:

• WORK

work of Paeonius in the Victory found in the See also:

• GERMAN
• GERMAN, DUTCH AND SCANDINAVIAN

German excavations at Olympia, and set up, according to the most probable view, in memory of the See also:

• BATTLE

battle of Sphacteria (see GREEK See also:

• ART

ART,fig . 36) . It bears the inscription " Dedicated to Olympian Zeus by the Messenians and Naupactians as a tithe of the spoil of their enemies . Paeonius of Mende made the statue, and was a successful competitor in the construction of the gable-figures for the temple." The gable figures last mentioned were doubt-less gilt victories of See also:

• BRONZE

bronze which stood on the gable, not in it . Pausanias seems to have misunderstood the phrase as implying that Paeonius made one of the pedimental See also:

• GROUPS
• GROUPS, THEORY

groups .