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  • noun Greek sculptor (4th century BC)

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Examples

  • For the noblemen among his dead he ordered bronze statues erected at Dion beneath Mount Olympus to be carved by Lysippus, the greatest sculptor of the day.

    Alexander the Great Philip Freeman 2011

  • For the noblemen among his dead he ordered bronze statues erected at Dion beneath Mount Olympus to be carved by Lysippus, the greatest sculptor of the day.

    Alexander the Great Philip Freeman 2011

  • For the noblemen among his dead he ordered bronze statues erected at Dion beneath Mount Olympus to be carved by Lysippus, the greatest sculptor of the day.

    Alexander the Great Philip Freeman 2011

  • Looking up one sees an immense blue sky, painted with spheres and white insets inscribed with the names of leading Greek sculptors from the 4th century: Cephisodotus, Lysippus, Myron, Phidias, Polyclitus, Praxiteles and Scopas.

    Cy Twombly's Ceiling at the Musee du Louvre 2010

  • Looking up one sees an immense blue sky, painted with spheres and white insets inscribed with the names of leading Greek sculptors from the 4th century: Cephisodotus, Lysippus, Myron, Phidias, Polyclitus, Praxiteles and Scopas.

    Cy Twombly's Ceiling at the Musee du Louvre 2010

  • Another statue dates from his establishment of Alexandria in Egypt, this by Lysippus, one of the Macedonian Court artists.

    On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2008

  • After a while Agis himself retired, recrossing the Alpheus; but he was careful to leave a garrison in Epitalium near that river, with Lysippus as governor, and the exiles from Elis along with him.

    Hellenica 2007

  • Turn to the sculptors if you will; Lysippus perished from hunger while in profound meditation upon the lines of a single statue, and

    Satyricon 2007

  • B.C. 400 – 399 (?) .170 During the rest of the summer and the ensuing winter the territory of the Eleians was ravaged and ransacked by Lysippus and his troops, until Thrasydaeus, the following summer, sent to Lacedaemon and agreed to dismantle the walls of Phea and Cyllene, and to grant autonomy to the Triphylian townships171 — together with

    Hellenica 2007

  • He tried to persuade Lysippus, then General of the Achaeans, to succor

    The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans Plutarch 2003

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