Myron

Myron , fl. 5th cent. BC, Greek sculptor. He is supposed to have been a pupil of Ageladas of Argos, but he worked largely in Athens. Sculpting in bronze, he was noted for his animals (of which no examples have survived) and for his athletes in action. His works are known through descriptions by ancient writers, such as Pliny and Pausanias, and two of them by copies, the Discobolus [Gr.,=discus thrower], the best copy of which is the Lancelotti Discobolus in Rome (Terme Mus.), and Athena and Marsyas, of which there are also Roman copies.

Myron. Greek sculptor active in Athens in the mid-5th century bc. He was one of the leading Greek sculptors of the period and is celebrated for his bronze Discobolus (Discus Thrower), which survives in Roman marble copies; the best of them is in the Terme Museum in Rome. As an example of compositional equilibrium it achieved a fame comparable to the Doryphorus of Polyclitus. Copies also exist of Myron's group of Athena and Marsyas, but no visual record survives of the work for which he was most renowned in his own time—the bronze Cow in the market place at Athens, which was said to display remarkable naturalism. See also Severe style.