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Myron
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My·ron  (mrn) Fifth century b.c.
Greek sculptor whose works include the Discus Thrower.

Myron [ˈmaɪərən]
n
(Biographies / Myron (5th century bc-5th century bc) M, Greek, ARTS AND CRAFTS: sculptor) 5th century bc, Greek sculptor. He worked mainly in bronze and introduced a greater variety of pose into Greek sculpture, as in his Discobolus


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CH) Myron - Discobolus (lost original, c450BC; Roman copies survive) What Myron of Eleutherae did was give the static, grandiose statues of classical Greece dynamism and movement.
 
 
 
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