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Lysippus

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Ly·sip·pus  (l-sps) fl. fourth century b.c.
Greek sculptor who was active during the reign of Alexander the Great. He created figures that were more lifelike than traditional forms.
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Noun1.LysippusLysippus - Greek sculptor (4th century BC)
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Neither did the great fabulist lack posthumous honors; for a statue was erected to his memory at Athens, the work of Lysippus, one of the most famous of Greek sculptors.
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But why should I attempt to depict and describe in detail, and feature by feature, the beauty of the peerless Dulcinea, the burden being one worthy of other shoulders than mine, an enterprise wherein the pencils of Parrhasius, Timantes, and Apelles, and the graver of Lysippus ought to be employed, to paint it in pictures and carve it in marble and bronze, and Ciceronian and Demosthenian eloquence to sound its praises?
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