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give other variations in speaking of this statue. It seems generally agreed that Pliny's account of the matter is correct in most of the particulars; and there have been various dissertations on the way in which a statue of Venus could have been changed into one of Nemesis.
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brought with them for the purpose of setting up a trophy. This account however has been overwhelmingly rejected as involving a confusion of the ideas connected by the Greeks with the goddess Nemesis. The statue moreover was not of Parian, but of
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85 to 88, that is, from about 436 to 424 BC. He was a pupil of the sculptor
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As late as the early 20th century, parts of the statue's head were in the
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Agoracritus is also a character (the sausage seller) in Greek playwright
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Stewart, Anthony F. (1996), "Agoracritus", in Hornblower, Simon (ed.),
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on the condition that it should never be set up in Athens.
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Only four of Agoracritus' works are mentioned: a statue of
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Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology
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Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology
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/ˌæɡəˈrækrɪtəs/
Ancient Greek
fl.
ancient Greece
Paros
Olympiad
Phidias
Zeus
Athena
Itonia
Athens
Cybele
Rhamnusian
Nemesis
Pliny
Alcamenes
Venus
Nemesis
Rhamnus
Pausanias
Parian marble
Persians
Datis
Artaphernes
Pentelic marble
Strabo
John Tzetzes
Suda
Photius
British Museum

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