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Pliny the Elder, The Natural History (ed. John Bostock, M.D., F.R.S., H.T. Riley, Esq., B.A.) 1 1 Browse Search
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith) 1 1 Browse Search
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ere made piecemeal and the portions fastened together. He supposes the statue erected by Ulysses to Neptune to have been thus constructed. He ascribes the art to Rhoecus and Theodorus, of Samos, in the time of Polycrates (555 B. C.), the patron of Pythagoras and Anacreon. Bronze castings of Egyptian and Etruscan workmanship, and of great antiquity, are found, but are not identified with any date. The bronze statues of both nations, in all probability, antedate the foundation of Rome, 753 B. C. The casting of the bronze vessels and ornaments for the service of the Temple at Jerusalem was about 1004 B. C., and took place in the clay ground between Succoth and Zeredatha. This is far more ancient than the Grecian annals and the calf-idol cast by Aaron was five hundred years earlier still. It was an old art in Egypt. With the exception of the statues of cast-iron referred to as mentioned by Pausanias (about A. D. 120), and regarded as curiosities, the ancients seem to have ha