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Here is built also a sanctuary of the Mother of the gods; the image is by Pheidias1. Hard by is the council chamber of those called the Five Hundred, who are the Athenian councillors for a year. In it are a wooden figure of Zeus Counsellor and an Apollo, the work of Peisias,2 and a Demos by Lyson. The thesmothetae (lawgivers) were painted by Protogenes3 the Caunian, and Olbiades4 portrayed Callippus, who led the Athenians to Thermopylae to stop the incursion of the Gauls into Greece.5

1 490-432 B.C.

2 The dates of these artists are unknown.

3 A contemporary of Alexander the Great.

4 An unknown painter.

5 279 B.C.

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