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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="theocosmus-bio-1" n="theocosmus_1"><head><persName xml:lang="la"><surname full="yes">Theocosmus</surname></persName></head><p>(<persName xml:lang="grc"><surname full="yes">Θεόκοσμος</surname></persName>), of Megara, a
      statuary, whose time is accurately defined by two statements in Pausanias. In the temple of
      Zeus Olympius at Megara, the traveller saw an unfinished chryselephantine statue of the god,
      which Theocosmus had undertaken to make, with the assistance of Pheidias, but the execution of
      which was interrupted by the breaking out of the Peloponnesian War, and the consequent
      incursions of the Athenians into the Megarensian territory. The face alone was of ivory and
      gold, and the rest of the statue of mud (or plastic clay) and gypsum ; and behind the temple
      there lay some half-wrought logs of wood, which Theocosmus had intended to cover with ivory
      and gold, and to use in completing the statue. Above the head of the god were the Hours and
      the Fates (<bibl n="Paus. 1.40.3">Paus. 1.40.3</bibl>. s. 4).</p><p>Theocosmus also made the statue of Lysander's pilot, Hermon, which formed a portion of the
      great votive offering dedicated by the Lacedaemonians at Delphi, out of the spoils of the
      battle of Aegospotami (<bibl n="Paus. 10.9.4">Paus. 10.9.4</bibl>. s. 8). Hence Theocosmus
      must have flourished from before the beginning till after the end of the Peloponnesian War,
      that is, in round numbers, about <date when-custom="-435">B. C. 435</date>-<date when-custom="-430">430</date>. He was the father of <hi rend="smallcaps">CALLICLES</hi> I. </p><byline>[<ref target="author.P.S">P.S</ref>]</byline></div></div></body></text></TEI>
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