Apoxyomenos
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title:
Apoxyomenos
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Apoxyomenos is one of the conventional subjects of ancient Greek votive sculpture; it represents an athlete, caught in the familiar act of scraping sweat and dust from his body with the small curved instrument that the Greeks called a stlengis and the Romans a strigil. The most renowned Apoxyomenos in Classical Antiquity was that of Lysippos of Sikyon, the court sculptor of Alexander the Great, made ca 330 BCE. The bronze original is lost, but it is known from its description in Pliny the Elder'
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Subject of Greek votive sculpture
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apoxyomenos
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2023-11-20T22:27:39Z
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