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5 Marble statue of Athena. Roman copy of the chryselephantine Athena Parthenos by Pheidias. c. 447-432 BC (Athens, National Archaeological Museum 129. © Universal Images Group/SuperStock).
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... from Argos was the most celebrated sculptor of the period, and he actually wrote a treatise, the Kanon, detailing how a male statue should be created using idealized proportions (HN 34.55 The most illustrious cult statue of the Classical period, whose function as cult statue has indeed been doubted by some scholars, is the statue of Athena Parthenos (cf. Figure 5.5). ...
