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Originally appearing in Volume V20, Page 447 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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Mende in See also:Thrace, a See also:Greek sculptor of the latter See also:part of the 5th See also:century. The statement of See also:Pausanias that he executed one of the pediments of the See also:temple of See also:Zeus at See also:Olympia is rejected by critics. But we possess an important See also:work of Paeonius in the Victory found in the See also:German excavations at Olympia, and set up, according to the most probable view, in memory of the See also:battle of Sphacteria (see GREEK See also:ART,fig. 36). It bears the inscription " Dedicated to Olympian Zeus by the Messenians and Naupactians as a tithe of the spoil of their enemies. Paeonius of Mende made the statue, and was a successful competitor in the construction of the gable-figures for the temple." The gable figures last mentioned were doubt-less gilt victories of See also:bronze which stood on the gable, not in it. Pausanias seems to have misunderstood the phrase as implying that Paeonius made one of the pedimental See also:groups.

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