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Updated: September 7, 2025
Vergilius had taken a palace and filled it with treasures, for, possibly, he had thought, some day she would see all. Now its noble statues were sent away a kind of sacrifice to the God of the Jews. But there was one he could not part with a copy of the lovely Venus of Alcamenes which his mother had sent to him.
Among these are a bas-relief representing Vesta and Minerva crowning a young man ; a bas-relief of Jupiter and Juno; a bas-relief representing a sacrifice before an altar ; an imperfect bas-relief representing three goddesses ; a lion's head from the roof of the Parthenon ; a fragment from Mantell's collection, of a female figure found on the plains of Marathon ; the upper part of a female figure, in bas-relief, from Athens ; two women and a child making offerings found in Laconia ; another bas-relief from Laconia ; a curious subject in bas-relief from Athens, representing the upper part of a youth holding something, supposed to be a lantern, with a boy near him, and a cat on a column ; a cast from a tablet representing in bas-relief Pan seated on a rock with a draped nymph, supposed to be Echo, before him ; a cast of the tablet of Euthydia, daughter of Diogenes, who is taking leave of friends ; and lastly, a bas-relief representing the shape of a shield, on which the names of the ephebi of Athens, under Alcamenes, are inscribed.
While both parties were thus engaged, and were as intent upon preparing for the war as they had been at the outset, the Euboeans first of all sent envoys during this winter to Agis to treat of their revolting from Athens. Agis accepted their proposals, and sent for Alcamenes, son of Sthenelaidas, and Melanthus from Lacedaemon, to take the command in Euboea.
But in the meanwhile arrived some Lesbians, who also wished to revolt; and these being supported by the Boeotians, Agis was persuaded to defer acting in the matter of Euboea, and made arrangements for the revolt of the Lesbians, giving them Alcamenes, who was to have sailed to Euboea, as governor, and himself promising them ten ships, and the Boeotians the same number.
You have seen the Cnidian Aphrodite, anyhow; now I want to know whether you have also seen our own Aphrodite of the Gardens, the Alcamenes. Poly. I must be a dullard of dullards, if that most exquisite of Alcamenes's works had escaped my notice. Ly. Poly. Frequently. Ly. That is really enough for my purpose. But I should just like to know what you consider to be Phidias's best work. Poly.
A cross-division will give precedence to the creations of Phidias, Alcamenes, Myron, Euphranor, and artists of that calibre, while the common inartistic jobs can be huddled together in the far corner, hold their tongues, and just make up the rank and file of our assembly. Herm. All right; they shall have their proper places.
And the sculptors themselves, in the fourth century, show more individuality of style. In the latter part of the fifth century the genius of Phidias had so dominated religious art that the works of his successors, men like Alcamenes and Agoracritus, could hardly be distinguished from his.
You know not what you ask. It is not in the power of words certainly not of my words to portray such wondrous beauty; scarcely could an Apelles, a Zeuxis, a Parrhasius, a Phidias or an Alcamenes, do justice to it; as for my flimsy workmanship, it will but insult the original. Poly. Well, never mind; what was she like? There can be no harm in trying your hand.
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