Scopas

It is related upon this head, (162) that one of the victors in boxing, called Scopas, having agreed with Simonides for a poem upon his victory, the poet, according to custom, after having given the highest praises to the champion, expatiated in a long digression to the honour of

The Ancient History of the Egyptians, Carthaginians, Assyrians, Babylonians, Medes and Persians, Macedonians and Grecians (Vol. 1 of 6) Charles Rollin 1701

Elgin marbles that the Greek sculptors in the fifth century possessed a nobility in their conception of the human form, a mastery in the treatment of the nude and of drapery, and a skill in marble technique of which only a faint reflection can be traced in the later Graeco-Roman tradition; but the great statues in which the sculptors of the fifth century embodied their ideals of the gods were either entirely lost or preserved only in inadequate copies; and it is only in recent years that the discovery of originals or the identification of trustworthy copies has enabled us to appreciate the intensity of expression and of inner life which distinguished the work of the great sculptors of the fourth century, such as Scopas, Praxiteles, and Lysippus.

Religion and Art in Ancient Greece Ernest Arthur Gardner

Think here of Scopas' late Classical "Boxer" carved from pitted, expressive surfaces, aging and unsure of what comes next for him.

ArtScene: This Month's Top Exhibitions in the Western United States ArtScene 2011

Think here of Scopas' late Classical "Boxer" carved from pitted, expressive surfaces, aging and unsure of what comes next for him.

ArtScene: This Month's Top Exhibitions in the Western United States ArtScene 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

There was a famous Scopas, son of Creon, to whom Simonides addressed his poem —

Hellenica 2007

With these are the immaculate daughters of itinerant Italian musicians — maids whose souls are unsoiled amidst the contaminations of our streets, and whose acquaintance with the art of Phidias and Praxiteles, of Daedalus and Scopas, is the more admirable, because entirely derived from loving study of the inexpensive collections vended by the plaster-of-Paris man round the corner.

Letters to Dead Authors 2006

But when one of his friends asked Scopas, the rich Thessalian, to give him some article of no great utility, saying that it was not a thing that he had any great need or use for himself, “In truth,” replied he,

The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans Plutarch 2003

"It was a disgraceful and deeply disconcerting performance, demonstrating beyond any doubt that the Scopas and Apac are to be nothing more than compliant tools of the ANC regimes," he said.

ANC Daily News Briefing 2002