Aristonidas
Aristonidas was a sculptor of ancient Greece, one of whose productions is mentioned by Pliny the Elder as extant at Thebes in his time. This work was a statue of Athamas – the mythological Boeotian king who murdered his own son – in which bronze and iron had been mixed together, that the rust of the latter, showing through the brightness of the bronze, might have the appearance of a blush, and so might indicate the remorse of Athamas.
Aristonidas
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Aristonidas was a sculptor of ancient Greece, one of whose productions is mentioned by Pliny the Elder as extant at Thebes in his time. This work was a statue of Athamas – the mythological Boeotian king who murdered his own son – in which bronze and iron had been mixed together, that the rust of the latter, showing through the brightness of the bronze, might have the appearance of a blush, and so might indicate the remorse of Athamas.
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- 1.Pliny the Elder, Natural History 34.14. s. 40
- 2.Scrivenor, Harry. History of the Iron Trade: From the Earliest Records to the Present Period. Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans. 14. 1854.
- 3.Hodgson, john. Archaeologia Aeliana, Or, Miscellaneous Tracts Relating to Antiquity. Society of Antiquaries of Newcastle upon Tyne. 1. 90. 1822.
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