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A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Timo'theus (search)
Timo'theus （*Timo/qeos), a statuary and sculptor, whose country is not mentioned, but who evidently belonged to the later Attic school of the time of Scopas and Praxiteles; for he was one of the artists who executed the bas-reliefs which adorned the frieze of the Mausoleum, about Ol. 107, B. C. 352. Timotheus sculptured the southern side of the frieze, the other three sides being wrought by Scopas, Bryaxis, and Leochares. (Plin. Nat. 36.5. s. 4. § .9; Vitruv. vii. Praef. § 12 ; SCOPAS; Dict. of Antiq. s. v. Mausoleum, 2d ed.) This statement also shows the eminence of Timotheus as an artist; for Pliny expressly tells us that it was an undetermined question, which of the four artists had been the most successful (hodieque certant manus). It must, however, be mentioned, that the Greek writers on the Mausoleum were not agreed as to the share of Timothens in its execution, some ascribing to Praxiteles that side of the frieze which others assigned to our artist. (Vitruv. l.c.） The Artem<
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Tisi'phonus (search)
Tisi'phonus （*Tisi/fonos), the eldest brother of Thebe, the wife of Alexander of Pherae, in whose murder he took part with his sister and his two brothers, Lycophron and Peitholaus. After Alexander's death, according to Conon the grammarian, Thebe virtually governed, while Tisiphonus held the nominal authority. Xenophon simply mentions him as Alexander's successor, and Diodorus tells us that he and Lycophron held the tyranny together, maintaining themselves by cruelty and violence with the aid of a mercenary force. We do not know how long the reign of Tisiphonus lasted; but he appears to have been dead by B. C. 352, when Philip of Macedon marched into Thessaly to support the Aleuadae against Lycophron. (Xen. Hell. 6.4.37; Diod. 16.14; Con. Narr. 50 ; Plut. Pel. 35 ; Clint. F. H. vol. ii. App. ch. 15.) [E.
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), B. (search)
a, the potters work up the clay provided by their fathers, and lay up a store to ripen for their children. Brickmaking in Greece was placed under legal supervisors. The walls of the city of Athens, we learn from Pliny, were made of brick on the side towards Mt. Hymettus. Many of their other public buildings were of brick, as were also those of the Romans. An attempted enumeration would become tedious. The palaces of Croesus, king of Lydia (548 B. C.), of Mausolus, of Halicarnassus (352 B. C.), the Bath of Titus (A. D. 70), the Pillar of Trajan (A. D. 98), and the Bath of Caracalla (A. D. 212), were of brick. The latter yet bears witness to the quality. Among many of the Asiatic nations the bricks are of excellent quality. Those of China are faced with porcelain, and in Nepaul they are ornamented by the encaustic process and in relief. The conquerors of Peru found the art of brickmaking in a flourishing condition in the Empire of the Incas, and both there and among the
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