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Originally appearing in Volume V20, Page 883 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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PASITELES , the most important member of the Neo-See also:

ATTIC (i.e. "in the Attic style ")

Attic school of See also:

sculpture in the See also:

time of See also:

JULIUS

Julius See also:

Caesar. At that See also:

period there was at See also:

Rome a demand for copies of, or See also:

variations on, noted See also:

WORKS

works of See also:

Greek sculpture: the demand was met by the workshops of Pasiteles and his pupils Stephanus and See also:

MENELAUS

Menelaus and others, several of whose statues are extant. In working from See also:

early Dorian See also:

MODELS

models they introduced refinements of their own, with the result that they produced beautiful, but some-what vapid and See also:

ACADEMIC

academic types. Pastiteles is said by See also:

Pliny (Nat. Hist. See also:

XXXVI

xxxvi. 39) to have been a native of Magna Graecia, and to have been granted the See also:

ROMAN

Roman citizenship.

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