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The bronze Antikythera Ephebe is a statue of a young man of languorous grace that was found by sponge-divers in the area of an ancient shipwreck^[1] off the island of Antikythera^[2] in 1900, the first of the series of Greek bronze sculptures that the Aegean and Mediterranean yielded up in the twentieth century,^[3] which have fundamentally altered the modern view of Ancient Greek sculpture. By the end of 1902 the same wreck site also yielded the Antikythera Mechanism, an astronomical calculating device, and a characterful head of a Stoic philosopher. The hoard of coins found in the wreck included a disproportionate quantity of Pergamene cistophoric tetradrachms and Ephesian coins, leading scholars to surmise that it had begun its journey on the Ionian coast, perhaps at Ephesus; none of its recovered cargo has been identified as from mainland Greece (Myers 1999). Antikythera (Î‘Î½Ï„Î¹ÎºÏÎ¸Î·ÏÎ±) is a Greek island community with a land area of 20. ... Look up Aegean Sea in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Mediterranean redirects here. ... This is a suggested outline for the article, please amend. ... The Antikythera mechanism (main fragment). ... View of the reconstructed Temple of Trajan at Pergamon Sketched reconstruction of ancient Pergamon Pergamon or Pergamum (Greek: Î ÎÏÎ³Î±Î¼Î¿Ï‚, modern day Bergama in Turkey, ) was an ancient Greek city, in Mysia, north-western Anatolia, 16 miles from the Aegean Sea, located on a promontory on the north side of the river... ISO 4217 Code GRD User(s) Greece Inflation 3. ... For the town in the southern United States, see Ephesus, Georgia. ... Location of Ionia Ionia (Greek Î™Ï‰Î½Î¯Î±; see also list of traditional Greek place names) was an ancient region of southwestern coastal Anatolia (in present-day Turkey, the region nearest Ä°zmir,) on the Aegean Sea. ...

The slightly over lifesize^[4] Ephebe was retrieved in numerous fragments; its first restoration was revised in the 1950s, under the direction of Christos Karouzos, changing the focus of the eyes, the configuration of the abdomen, the connection between the torso and the right upper thigh and the position of the right arm; the re-restoration is universally considered a success (Myers 1999).

The Ephebe does not correspond to any familiar iconographic model, and there are no known copies of the type. He held a spherical object in his right hand,^[5] and possibly may have represented Paris presenting the Apple of Discord to Aphrodite; however, since Paris is consistently depicted cloaked and with the distinctive Phrygian cap, other scholars have suggested a beardless, youthful Heracles with the Apple of the Hesperides. The loss of the context of the Antikythera Ephebe has stripped it of its original cultural meaning. It has also been suggested that the youth is a depiction of Perseus holding the head of the slain Gorgon. See List of King Priams children Statue of Paris in the British Museum This article is about the prince of Troy. ... An apple of discord is a reference to the Golden Apple of Discord which, according to Greek mythology, the goddess Eris (Gr. ... The Birth of Venus, (detail) by Sandro Botticelli, 1485 For other uses, see Aphrodite (disambiguation). ... A Phrygian cap The Phrygian cap or Bonnet Phrygien is a soft, red, conical cap with the top pulled forward, worn in antiquity by the inhabitants of Phrygia, a region of central Anatolia. ... Alcides redirects here. ... For the ancient Greek city Hesperides see Benghazi. ... Perseus with the head of Medusa, by Antonio Canova, completed 1801 (Vatican Museums) Perseus, Perseos, or Perseas (Greek: Î ÎµÏÏƒÎµÏÏ‚, Î ÎµÏÏƒÎÏ‰Ï‚, Î ÎµÏÏƒÎÎ±Ï‚), the legendary founder of Mycenae and of the Perseid dynasty there, was the first of the mythic heroes of Greek mythology whose exploits in defeating various archaic monsters provided the founding myths... This article is about the Greek mythological monster. ...

The Ephebe, dated by its style to about 340 BC, is one of the most brilliant products of Peloponnesan bronze sculpture; the individuality and character it displays have encouraged speculation on its possible sculptor: perhaps it is the work of the famous sculptor Euphranor, trained in the Polyclitan tradition, who did make a sculpture of Paris, according to Pliny: Euphranor of Corinth (middle of the 4th century BC) was the only Greek artist who excelled both as a sculptor and as a painter. ... Polykleitos (or Polycletus, Polyklitos, Polycleitus, Polyclitus) the Elder was a Greek sculptor of the 5th century BC and the early 4th century BC. Next to famous Phidias, Myron and Kresilas he is the most important sculptor of the Classical antiquity. ...

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^ The wreck itself is dated about 70-60 BC.
^ The island, about halfway between Cythera and Crete, was Aegilia in Antiquity.
^ Other well-known underwater bronze finds have been retrieved, generally from shipwreck sites: the Mahdia shipwreck off the coast of Tunisia, 1907; the Marathon Boy off the coast of Marathon, 1925; the standing Poseidon of Cape Artemision found off Cape Artemision in northern Euboea, 1926; the horse and Rider found off Cape Artemision, 1928 and 1937; the Getty Victorious Youth found off Fano, Italy, in 1964; the Riace Warriors, found in 1972; the Dancing Satyr of Mazara del Vallo, near Brindisi, 1992; and the Apoxyomenos' recovered from the sea off the Croatian island of Lošinj in 1999.
^ 1.94 meters
^ Minute fragments of bronze adhere to the fingers (Myers 1999).
^ Natural Histories, 34.77: Euphranoris Alexander Paris est in quo laudatur quod omnia simul intelliguntur, iudex dearum, amator Helenae et tamen Achillis interfector.
^ Inv. no. 13396.

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