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Apelles the painter and Lysippus the sculptor also lived in the time of Alexander. The former painted Alexander wielding the Thunderbolt Cf.Life of Alexander, chap. iv. (666 b); Pliny, Natural History, xxxv. 10 (92). so vividly and with so natural an expression, that men said that, of the two Alexanders, Alexander, son of Philip, was invincible, but the Alexander of Apelles was inimitable. And when Lysippus Cf.Life of Alexander, chap. iv. (666 b). modelled his first statue of Alexander which represented him looking up with his face turned towards the heavens (as indeed Alexander often did look, with a slight inclination of his head to one side Cf. ibid. and Moralia, 53 d.),someone engraved these verses Cf. 331 a, supra, and the note. on the statue, not without some plausibility, Eager to speak seems the statue of bronze, up to Zeus as it gazes: Earth I have set under foot: Zeus, keep Olympus yourself! Wherefore Alexander gave orders that Lysippus Cf. Pliny, Natural History, vii. 37 (125); Horace, Epistles, ii. 1. 240; Valerius Maximus, viii. 11. 2; Arrian, Anabasis, i. 16. 4. only should make statues of him. For Lysippus was, it seemed, the only one that revealed in the bronze Alexander’s character and in moulding his form portrayed also his virtues. The others wished to imitate the flexing of his neck and the melting and liquid softness of his eyes, but were unable to preserve his virile and leonine expression.
