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                    <TEI xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"><text xml:base="urn:cts:pdlrefwk:viaf88890045.003.perseus-eng1"><body xml:lang="eng" n="urn:cts:pdlrefwk:viaf88890045.003.perseus-eng1"><div type="textpart" subtype="alphabetic_letter" n="T"><div type="textpart" subtype="entry" xml:id="theocles-bio-3" n="theocles_3"><head><persName xml:lang="la"><surname full="yes">The'ocles</surname></persName></head><p>(<label xml:lang="grc">Θεοκλῆς</label>), the son of Hegylus, was a Lacedaemonian
      statuary, and one of the disciples of Dipoenus and Scyllis. He therefore flourished about
       <date when-custom="-550">B. C. 550</date>. He wrought in wood and in ivory and gold. Two of his
      works are apparently mentioned by Pausanias; but they were only separate parts of one and the
      same group, representing Hercules preparing to carry off the golden apples of the Hesperides.
      This group consisted of a celestial hemisphere (<foreign xml:lang="grc">πόλος</foreign>,
      see <hi rend="ital">Dict. of Antiq. s. v.</hi> 2d ed.) upheld by Atlas, with Hercules, and the
      tree which bore the golden apples of the Hesperides, and the dragon coiled around the tree,
      all carved out of cedar wood. An inscription on the <foreign xml:lang="grc">πόλος</foreign>
      stated that the work was executed by Theocles and his son. It stood at Olympia, in the
      treasury of the Epidamnians; but, in the time of Pausanias, the figures of the Hesperides had
      been removed from it by the Eleians, and placed in the temple of Hera. (<bibl n="Paus. 6.19.5">Paus. 6.19.5</bibl>. s. 8.) In his description of the temple of Hera (5.17.1), Pausanias
      mentions these statues, five in number, as being of gold and ivory, which is not inconsistent
      with the other statement, that they were of cedar-wood; for the two accounts can easily be
      reconciled by supposing that they were of cedar-wood gilt, and the faces, hands, and feet
      covered with plates of ivory. Possibly the ivory may have been added to the statues when they
      were transferred to the temple of Hera. </p><byline>[<ref target="author.P.S">P.S</ref>]</byline></div></div></body></text></TEI>
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