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Discobolus
The Discobolus of Myron ("discus thrower", , "Diskobólos") is a Greek sculpture completed at the start of the Classical Period, figuring a youthful ancient Greek athlete throwing discus, circa 460–450 BC. The original Greek bronze is lost but the work is known through numerous Roman copies, both full-scale ones in marble, which was cheaper than bronze, such as the first to be recovered, the "Palombara Discobolus", and smaller scaled versions in bronze.
A discus thrower depicted
Prior to this statue's discovery the term "Discobolus" had been applied in the 17th and 18th centuries to a standing figure holding a discus, a "Discophoros", which Ennio Quirino Visconti identified as the "Discobolus" of Naukydes of Argos, mentioned by Pliny (Haskell and Penny 1981:200).
"Discobolus Palombara" or "Lancellotti".
The "Discobolus Palombara", the first copy of this famous sculpture to have been discovered, was found in 1781. It is a 1st-century AD copy of