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Originally appearing in Volume V01, Page 518 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ALCAMENES , a See also:

Greek sculptor of See also:Lemnos and See also:Athens. He was a younger contemporary of See also:Pheidias and noted for the delicacy and finish of his See also:works, among which a See also:Hephaestus and an See also:Aphrodite " of the Gardens " were conspicuous. See also:Pausanias says (v. to. 8) that he was the author of one of the pediments of the See also:temple of See also:Zeus at See also:Olympia (see GREEK See also:ART), but this seems a See also:chronological and stylistic impossibility. At See also:Pergamum there was discovered in 1903 a copy of the See also:head of the See also:Hermes " Propylaeus " of Alcamenes (Athenische Mittheilungen, 1904, p. 18o). As, however, the deity is represented in an archaistic and conventional See also:character, this copy cannot be relied on as giving us much See also:information as to the usual See also:style of Alcamenes, who was almost certainly a progressive and See also:original artist. It is safer to See also:judge him by the sculptural decoration of the See also:Parthenon, in which he must almost certainly have taken a See also:share under the direction of Pheidias.

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