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Discobolus
thumb|Roman bronze reproduction of Myron's Discobolus, 2nd century AD ([[Glyptothek, Munich)]] thumb|3D model of a replica at National Gallery of Denmark, Denmark. The Discobolus by Myron ("discus thrower", , Diskobólos) is an ancient Greek sculpture completed at the start of the Classical period in around 460–450 BC that depicts an ancient Greek athlete throwing a discus. Though the original Greek bronze cast is lost, the work is known through numerous Roman copies, both full-scale ones in marble, which is cheaper than bronze, such as the Palombara Discobolus, the first to be recovered, and s