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Apollonius

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Apollonius (lived 2nd century BC)

Greek sculptor. He and his brother Tauriscus, both active in Rhodes, made the marble group known as the Farnese Bull (Roman copy National Museum, Naples), based on the legend of Amphion. The sculpture depicts Zethus and Amphion tying the vengeful Dirce to the tail of a bull.



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The answer of Apollonius to Vespasian, is full of excellent instruction.
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Did I iver tell you how Horker Kelley wint into clink nakid as Phoebus Apollonius, wid the shirts av the Corp'ril an' file undher his arrum?
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One at least of these, the "Divination by Birds", was, as we know from Proclus, attached to the end of the "Works" until it was rejected by Apollonius Rhodius: doubtless it continued the same theme of how to live, showing how man can avoid disasters by attending to the omens to be drawn from birds.
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