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EUTYCHIDES

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Originally appearing in Volume V09, Page 958 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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Sicyon in See also:Achaea, See also:Greek 'sculptor of the latter See also:part of the 4th See also:century B.C., was a See also:pupil of See also:Lysippus. His most noted See also:work was a statue of See also:Fortune, which he made for the See also:city of See also:Antioch, then newly founded. The goddess, who embodied the See also:idea of the city, was seated on a See also:rock, crowned with towers, and having the See also:river See also:Orontes at her feet. There is a small copy of the statue in the Vatican (see GREEK See also:ART). It was imitated by a number of See also:Asiatic cities; and indeed most statues of cities since erected See also:borrow something from the work of Eutychides.

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