Ancient Greek athletic art

thumb|Roman marble copy of Myron's most famous work, the Discobolus. [[Towneley Marbles, British Museum]] Myron of Eleutherae (; , Myrōn ; c. 485 – c. 440 BC) was an Athenian sculptor from the mid-5th century BC. Alongside three other Greek sculptors, Polykleitos, Pheidias, and Praxiteles, Myron is considered as one of the most important sculptors of classical antiquity. He was born in Eleutherae on the borders of Boeotia and Attica. According to Natural History, a Latin encyclopedia by Pliny the Elder (AD 23–79), a scholar in Ancient Rome, Ageladas of Argos was his teacher.

Polykleitos (; ) was an ancient Greek sculptor, active in the 5th century BCE. Alongside the Athenian sculptors Pheidias, Myron and Praxiteles, he is considered as one of the most important sculptors of classical antiquity. The 4th century BCE catalogue attributed to Xenocrates (the "Xenocratic catalogue"), which was Pliny's guide in matters of art, ranked him between Pheidias and Myron. He is particularly known for his lost treatise, the Canon of Polykleitos (a canon of body proportions), which set out his mathematical basis of an idealised male body shape.

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

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thumb|upright|The Vatican Apoxyomenos by Lysippos, in the [[Museo Pio-Clementino, found in Trastevere, 1849. Height: 2.05 metres (6 feet 9 inches)]]

thumb|The Athens example, with the quiver in view. National Archaeological Museum of Athens. Height: 1.95 metres (6 feet 4 inches) thumb|upright|Reconstruction, in a patinated cast at the Pushkin Museum, Moscow

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thumb|upright|The Townley marbles|Townley Discophoros ([[British Museum)]] The Discophoros, also spelled Discophorus (Greek – "Discus-Bearer"), was a bronze sculpture by the classical Greek sculptor Polyclitus, creator of the Doryphoros and Diadumenos, and its many Roman marble copies. It is not, however, to be confused with Discobolus of Myron, which shows a discus being thrown, not carried. thumb|upright|left|Discophorus fountain, on Calle Obregon in Colonia Roma in [[Mexico City]] Like the Doryphoros and Diadumenos, it was created as an example of Polyclitus's "canon" of the ideal human for