File Greek statue discus thrower 2 century aC.jpg thumb Roman bronze reduction of Myron s Discobolus , 2nd century AD Glyptothek , Munich . The Discobolus of Myron discus thrower Greek language Greek , Diskobolos is a famous Greek sculpture that was completed towards the end of the Severe style Severe period , circa 460 450 BC. The original Greek bronze is lost. It is known through numerous Roman copies, both full scale ones in marble, such as the first to be recovered, the Palombara Discopolus , or smaller scaled versions in bronze. A discus throw er is depicted about to release his ... athletics, the Discobolus is completely Nudity in sport nude . His pose is said to be unnatural ... no muscular strain, however, even though the limbs are outflung. Reputation in Antiquity Myron s Discobolus ... 200 . ref File Discobolus red figure Louvre G292 full.jpg thumb left The discobolus motif on an Attica Attic red figured cup, ca. 490 BC, is static by comparison. Discobolus and Discophorus Prior to this statue s discovery the term Discobolus had been applied in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries ... as the Discobolus of Naukydes of Argos , mentioned by Pliny s Natural History Pliny Haskell and Penny 1981 200 . Discobolus Palombara The Discobolus Palombara , the first copy of this famous sculpture ... Discobolus After the discovery of the Discobolus Palombara a second notable Discobolus was excavated ... File Discobulus.jpg thumb The Townley Discobolus at the British Museum , with incorrectly restored ... s Discobolus as a Wounded Gladiator who supports himself on his arm as he sinks to the ground the completed ... Museum Discobolus ref Another is at Slater Memorial Museum in Norwich, Connecticut. ref http ... A bronze cast stands in the Botanical Gardens of Copenhagen . The Discobolus was depicted on the Obverse ... Ancient Greek athletic art ca Disc bol da Discobolus de Diskobolos el es ... no Discobolus pl Dyskobol pt Disc bolo sh Diskobol uk ... more details
File Discophoros Louvre Ma89.jpg thumb Discobolus , modeled after Naukydes. Naukydes of Argos 4th century BCE was a Greeks Greek sculptor from Argos . Taught under Polykleitos , he created a statue of gold and ivory of Hebe mythology Hebe for the temple of Hera in Argos also, statues of Hecate , Hermes , of the poet Erinna , and Phrixus . The discobolus of Naukydes was identified by Ennio Quirino Visconti , as mentioned by Pliny Haskell and Penny 1981 200 . He eventually became teacher to Polykleitos the Younger , son of his old teacher. External links http www.answers.com topic naukydes Some references Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Naukydes Of Argos ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION DATE OF BIRTH PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT Naukydes Of Argos Category 4th century BC Greek sculptors Category Ancient Argives Greece sculptor stub de Naukydes pl Naukydes ... more details
. clarki, C. plebius, and C. discobolus including the Zuni sucker, C.d. yarrowi. Copia 1987 843 854 ... AZ GFD Arizona Game and Fish Department. 2002. Catostomus discobolus yarrowi. Unpublished abstract ... more details
Citations missing date January 2008 This article is about the cartoon series. For the revue musical based on the words and music of Tom Lehrer , see Tom Foolery wiktionary tomfoolery The Tomfoolery Show is an United States American cartoon comedy television series made and first broadcast in 1970, based on the works of Edward Lear . The animation was done at the Halas and Batchelor Studios in London and Stroud. Though the works of other writers were also used, notably Lewis Carroll and Ogden Nash , Lear s works were the main source, and characters like The Yongy Bonghy Bo and The Unmbrageous Umbrella Maker were all Lear creations. Some original material was also written based on characters created by Lear, although much of the material was a straight recital of poems and limericks or songs using Lear s poems set to music. A recurring joke had a delivery boy running around trying to deliver a large plant and shouting Plant for Mrs Discobolus . The series was produced by Rankin Bass , who also made the Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer television special and Frosty the Snowman . External links imdb title id 0145638 animation tv prog stub Rankin Bass DEFAULTSORT Tomfoolery Show Category 1970s American animated television series Category 1970 television series debuts Category 1971 television series endings Category NBC network shows ... more details
Taxobox image white sucker.gif image caption White sucker , Catostomus commersonii regnum Animal ia phylum Chordate Chordata classis Actinopterygii ordo Cypriniformes subordo Cobitoidea familia Catostomidae genus Catostomus genus authority Charles Alexandre Lesueur Lesueur , 1817 subdivision ranks Species subdivision See text. Catostomus is a genus of fish belonging to the family Catostomidae , commonly known as suckers. Species FishBase lists 27 species Catostomus ardens small David Starr Jordan D. S. Jordan & Charles Henry Gilbert C. H. Gilbert , 1881 small Utah sucker Catostomus bernardini small Charles Fr d ric Girard Girard , 1856 small Yaqui sucker Catostomus cahita small Darrell J. Siebert Siebert & Wendell L. Minckley Minckley , 1986 small Cahita sucker Catostomus catostomus small Johann Reinhold Forster J. R. Forster , 1773 small Catostomus catostomus catostomus small Johann Reinhold Forster J. R. Forster , 1773 small Longnose sucker Catostomus catostomus cristatus small Edward Drinker Cope Cope , 1883 small Catostomus catostomus lacustris small Alexander Dimitrivitch Bajkov Bajkov , 1927 small Jasper longnose sucker Catostomus clarkii small Spencer Fullerton Baird Baird & Charles Fr d ric Girard Girard , 1854 small Desert sucker Catostomus columbianus small Carl H. Eigenmann C. H. Eigenmann & Rosa Smith Eigenmann R. S. Eigenmann , 1893 small Bridgelip sucker Catostomus commersonii small Bernard Germain de Lac p de Lac p de , 1803 small White sucker Catostomus conchos small Seth Eugene Meek Meek , 1902 small Catostomus discobolus small Edward Drinker Cope Cope , 1871 small Catostomus discobolus discobolus small Edward Drinker Cope Cope , 1871 small Bluehead sucker Catostomus discobolus jarrovii small Edward Drinker Cope Cope , 1874 small Zuni bluehead sucker Catostomus fumeiventris small Robert Rush Miller R. R. Miller , 1973 small Owens sucker Catostomus insignis small Spencer Fullerton Baird Baird & Charles Fr d ric Girard Girard , 1854 small Sonora sucke ... more details
File The Townley Caryatid.jpg thumb right The Caryatid The Townley Caryatid is a 7.25m high Pentelic marble caryatid , depicting a woman dressed to take part in religious rites possibly fertility rites related to Demeter or Ceres Roman mythology Ceres , due to the cereal motifs on her modius headdress . It dates to the Roman era, between 140 and 160 AD, and is in the Neo Attic style adapted from 5th century BC Athenian workmanship. It is one of a group of five surviving caryatids found on the same site, arranged to form a colonnade in a religious sanctuary built on land fronting on the Via Appia owned by Regilla , wife of the Greek magnate and philosopher Herodes Atticus . This sanctuary was probably dedicated to Demeter. A fragmentary caryatid from the series, now in the Villa Albani , Rome, is signed by otherwise unknown Athenian sculptors Kriton and Nikolaos It was acquired with other purchases from the Pope Sixtus V Villa Montalto in 1787 ref A. H. Smith, Gavin Hamilton s Letters to Charles Townley The Journal of Hellenic Studies 21 1901 306 321 p. p. 306 note 3. Townley inventories, where it is interpolated between No. 9 Hecate and No. 10 Fortune . ref by Charles Townley , who bequeathed it to the British Museum in 1805, where its catalogue number is 1805, 0703 44. It was until recently in Gallery 84, but is now on the Main Stairs, replacing Townley s Discobolus . References reflist Category Townley collection Caryatid Category 2nd century works Category Neo Attic sculptures sculpture stub ... more details
Image CarloFea.jpg right thumb Carlo Fea Carlo Fea 2 February 1753 18 March 1836 was an Italy Italian archaeologist . Born at Pigna, Liguria Pigna , in what is now Liguria , Fea studied law in Rome , receiving the degree of doctor of laws from the university of University of Rome La Sapienza La Sapienza , but archaeology gradually attracted his attention, and with the view of obtaining better opportunities for his research in 1798 he took orders. For political reasons he was forced to take refuge in Florence on his return to Rome in 1799 he was imprisoned as a Jacobin politics Jacobin by the Two Sicilies Neapolitans , who at that time were occupying Rome, but was shortly afterwards freed and appointed Commissario delle Antichit and librarian to Prince Chigi . At Rome in 1781 Fea discovered a statue of a discus throw er, the so called Discobolus , one of the known Roman copies of the famous Greek original statue in bronze created by Myron . Fea helped frame legislation to control the trade in, and excavation of, the antiquities of Rome, and undertook archaeological work on the Pantheon, Rome Pantheon and the Roman Forum Forum there. Fea revised and annotated an Italian translation of Johann Joachim Winckelmann s Geschichte der Kunst , and also annotated some of the works of G. L. Bianconi . Among his original writings he is best known for Miscellanea filologica, critica, e antiquaria and Descrizione di Roma . He died in Rome in 1836. References Ridley, R.T., 2000, The Pope s Archaeologist The Life and Times of Carlo Fea , Quasar. ISBN 88 7140 177 8 1911 Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Fea, Carlo ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION DATE OF BIRTH 2 February 1753 PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH 18 March 1836 PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT Fea, Carlo Category 1753 births Category 1836 deaths Category People from the Province of Imperia Category Italian archaeologists Category Italian art collectors Category Sapienza University of Rome alumni Category Italia ... more details
Image Discophoros BM.jpg thumb upright The Townley marbles Townley Discophoros British Museum Polyclitean canon The Discophoros , also spelled Discophorus , Greek Discus throw Discus Bearer was a bronze sculpture by the classical Greek sculptor Polyclitus 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. Image DiscoboloRomaDF.JPG 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 form in sculpture. It features a young, muscular, solidly built athlete in a moment of thought before throwing a discus. Most marble copies feature the addition of a marble tree stump marble is weaker but heavier than bronze as the stump is needed for support. These copies are also often missing their arms, which are often restored. File Diskophoros Via del Mare Musei Capitolini MC1865.jpg thumb upright left A variant, found in via del Mare, 1910 Capitoline Museums A variant is at the Louvre Museum . References Commons category Discophoros Borbein, Adolf. Polykleitos , in O. Palagia and J.J. Pollitt, eds, Personal Styles in Greek Sculpture Yale Classical Studies XXX Cambridge University Press 1998 66 90. Summarizing traditional attributions. Herbert Beck, Peter C. Bol, Maraike B ckling Hrsg. Polyklet. Der Bildhauer der griechischen Klassik. Ausstellung im Liebieghaus Museum Alter Plastik Frankfurt am Main . Von Zabern, Mainz 1990 ISBN 3 8053 1175 3 Detlev Kreikenbom Bildwerke nach Polyklet. Kopienkritische Untersuchungen zu den m nnlichen statuarischen Typen nach polykletischen Vorbildern. Diskophoros , Hermes, Doryphoros, Herakles, Diadumenos . Mann, Berlin 1990, ISBN 3 7861 1623 7 Category Ancient Greek sculpture types Category Sculptures by Polyclitus Category Archaeology of Greece Category ... more details
Infobox artwork image file Discus Thrower Washington, D.C. 1.JPG painting alignment Front image size 300px title Discus Thrower alt other language 1 other title 1 other language 2 other title 2 artist year 1956 type Bronze height metric width metric length metric height imperial width imperial length imperial diameter cm diameter inch city Washington, D.C. , United States museum coordinates coord 38.894869 77.046411 display inline,title type landmark owner National Park Service Discus Thrower is a bronze sculpture in Washington, D.C. ref http dcmemorials.com index indiv0000922.htm ref It is a copy of the Discobolus of Myron , located in Edward J. Kelly Park , at 22nd Street and Virginia Avenue , N.W. Washington, D.C. . ref http www.waymarking.com waymarks WM81R3 Discus Thrower Washington DC Discus Thrower , Waymarking ref The architect was Rodolfo Siviero, and the founder was Bruno Bearzi. It was dedicated on March 1, 1956. It was a gift from the Italian government to commemorate the return of Nazi plunder looted art objects , after World War II . ref http siris artinventories.si.edu ipac20 ipac.jsp?&profile all&source siartinventories&uri full 3100001 324781 0 focus Discus Thrower, sculpture . SIRIS ref The inscription reads br Base of sculpture, east side br GLI ITALIANI br AL POPOLO AMERICANIO br 28 FEBRAIO 1956 br Base of sculpture, west side br SIGMOM IVSTITIAE RESTITVTAE br XXVIII.II.MCMXLVIII References reflist External links commons category Discus Thrower Washington, D.C. DEFAULTSORT Discus Thrower Washington, D.C. Category Monuments and memorials in Washington, D.C. Category Outdoor sculptures in Washington, D.C. Category Artworks in the collection of the United States National Park Service Category 1956 works public art stub ... more details
MedalTableTopPic Franti ek Janda Suk.jpg 180px MedalSport Men s Athletics at the Summer Olympics athletics MedalCompetition Olympic Games MedalSilver 1900 Summer Olympics 1900 Paris Athletics at the 1900 Summer Olympics Men s discus throw Discus throw MedalBottom Franti ek Janda Suk IPA cs franc k janda suk March 25, 1878 &ndash June 23, 1955 was a Czech Republic Czech Athletics sport athlete who competed for Bohemia in the 1900 Summer Olympics and in the 1912 Summer Olympics . He was born in Post i n near Roudnice nad Labem and died in Prague . In the 1900 Summer Olympics held in Paris , France , where he became the first Czech medalist in the history of the Olympiads winning the silver medal in the discus throw. He was the first modern athlete to throw the discus while rotating the whole body. He invented this technique when studying the position of the famous statue of Discobolus . After only one year of developing the technique he gains the olympic silver. At the 1912 Summer Olympics in Stockholm , Sweden he was 15th in Athletics at the 1912 Summer Olympics Men s shot put shot put and 17th in Athletics at the 1900 Summer Olympics Men s discus throw discus throw . External links http www.databaseolympics.com players playerpage.htm?ilkid JANDAFRA01 profile Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Janda Suk, Franti ek ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION Czech discus thrower and shot putter DATE OF BIRTH March 25, 1878 PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH June 23, 1955 PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT Janda Suk, Frantisek Category 1878 births Category 1955 deaths Category Czech discus throwers Category Czech shot putters Category Olympic athletes of Bohemia Category Athletes track and field at the 1900 Summer Olympics Category Athletes track and field at the 1912 Summer Olympics Category Olympic silver medalists for Bohemia Category Olympic medalists in athletics track and field Czech athletics bio stub Bohemia Olympic medalist stub cs Franti ek Janda Suk de Fran ... more details
Maximus , Discobolus the discus throw er , and an Apollo for Ephesus , which Antony the triumvir ... by Lucian ref Lucian of Samosata, Philopseudes 18. ref conclusively identifies as Myron s the Discobolus ... more details
Other persons Thomas Jenkins File Anna Maria Jenkins Thomas Jenkins by Angelica Kauffmann.jpg right thumb A 1790 portrait of Thomas Jenkins with his niece Anna Maria by Angelica Kauffmann Thomas Jenkins ca. 1722 1798 was a British antiquary and minor painter who went to Rome accompanying the English landscape painter Richard Wilson painter Richard Wilson about 1750 and remained behind, establishing himself in the city by serving as cicerone and sometime banker to the visiting British, becoming a dealer in Roman sculpture and antiquities to a largely British clientele and an agent for gentlemen who wished a portrait or portrait bust as a memento of the Grand Tour . ref Brinsley Ford, Thomas Jenkins, banker, dealer and unofficial English agent Apollo 99 1974 pp 416ff. ref Jenkins often unpleasantly self serving maneuvers to keep artists in Rome from direct contact with visiting potential clients appear like a leitmotiv in the series of letters written from Rome and Tivoli in 1758 by the artist Jonathan Skelton, slandered as a Jacobite by Jenkins. ref Brinsley Ford, The letters of Jonathan Skelton written from Rome and Tivoli in 1758 Walpole Society 36 1956 58 , ref Among the antiquities that passed through his hands, often improved by Roman sculpture restorers like Bartolomeo Cavaceppi , was the Discobolus discovered in Hadrian s Villa , which Jenkins sold to Charles Townley the Townley Discobolus is in the British Museum . Jenkins also exported paintings to London. ref T. Ashby, Thomas Jenkins in Rome Papers of the British School at Rome, 6 .8 1913 , pp 487 511. ref Jenkins was also instrumental in the formation of William Petty, 2nd Earl of Shelburne Lord Shelburne, later Lord Lansdowne s collection of antiquities and the collection formed by Henry Weddell on his Grand Tour in 1765 66, at Ince Blundell Ince Blundell Hall , Lancashire, notably the Jenkins Venus also known as the Barberini Venus from Palazzo Barberini . Jenkins sculptures also went, at secondhand, to ... more details
Image Discobolus Kleomelos Louvre G111.jpg thumb right Attic Red figure pottery red figure kylix drinking cup kylix with the inscription Kleomelos Kalos . The youth Kleomelos he of glorious limbs is depicted practising discus throwing in a gymnasium a pair of dumbbell halters is hanging on the wall. File Eos Memnon Louvre G115.jpg thumb left The so called Memnon pieta , Ancient Greece Ancient Greek Attic Red figure pottery red figure cup, ca. 490 480 BC, from Capua . Inscription on the left ? ENEMEKNERINE ??? , HERMO S KALOS Hermogenes kalos . Inscription on the up right HEOS Eos , RIS E RA SEN Doris Egraphsen Doris drew me . Insription on the right MEMNON Memnon mythology Memnon , KALIA ES E OIESEN Kaliades epoiesen Kaliades made me . Louvre Museum, Paris. The Kalos inscription was a form of epigraphy epigraph found on Attic vase s and graffiti in antiquity, common between 550 and 450 BC, and usually found on Symposium symposion vessels. The word means beautiful here it had an erotic connotation, and the inscription took the form of a youth s name, in the nominative singular, followed by kalos X kalos , i.e. X is beautiful . The individuals mentioned were almost always teenage boys, though occasionally girls and women were spoken of as kal . Kroll reports that ceramic descriptions of individuals labeled as beautiful include thirty of women and girls, kal , and five hundred and twenty eight of boys, kalos . ref Wilhelm Kroll http www.well.com user aquarius kroll pederasty.htm Knabenliebe in Pauly Wissowa, Realencyclopaedie der klassischen Altertumswissenschaft, vol. 11, cols. 897 906. ref Kalos names are also found as graffiti on walls, the most abundant example being the find on Thassos of 60 kalos inscriptions carved on rock dating from the 4th century. The non epigraphic literary evidence consists of two references in Aristophanes, line 144 in the Archarnians and lines 97 99 in the Wasps. In both of these instances, it is the demos that is lauded ... more details
Other uses pp move indef small yes File TwoDumbbells.JPG thumb right A pair of adjustable dumbbells with 2 kg plates. The dumbbell , a type of Weight training Free weights versus weight machines free weight , is a piece of equipment used in weight training . It can be used individually or in pairs one for each hand . History File Discobolus Kleomelos Louvre G111.jpg thumb Young boy holding a discus at the palaestra . Near him, a pick to prepare the landing ground for the long jump and a pair of dumbbells Halteres ancient Greece halteres used to maintain equilibrium during the jump. Interior of an Ancient Greece Ancient Greek Attic Red figure pottery red figure kylix drinking cup kylix , 510 500 BC, Louvre Museum, Paris. Image Halteres from ancient Greece.JPG thumb Dumbbells Halteres ancient Greece halteres used in athletic games in ancient Greece, National Archaeological Museum, Athens . The forerunner of the dumbbell, Halteres ancient Greece halteres , were used in ancient Greece as lifting weights ref Norman Gardiner, Athletics in the Ancient World , Dover, 2002, on http books.google.com books?id UdRZkKCHoXoC&pg PA153&dq halteres galen&lr &ei dHv9S5 5OIyYzASliYG9Dw&cd 9 v onepage&q halteres 20galen&f false Google books ref ref Bill Pearl, Getting Stronger Weight Training for Sports , Shelter, 2005, on http books.google.com books?id wQD2PgD85O8C&pg PA388&dq halteres galen&lr &ei dHv9S5 5OIyYzASliYG9Dw&cd 5 v onepage&q halteres 20galen&f false Google books ref and also as weights in the ancient Greek version of the long jump. ref Stephen G. Miller, Ancient Greek Athletics , Yale University Press, 2006, on http books.google.com books?id 3Wdh6YGXOxMC&pg PA64&dq halteres halter&lr &ei AXr9S4 jCIvuywSHxryfCg&cd 7 v onepage&q halteres 20halter&f false Google books ref A kind of dumbbell was also used in India for more than a millennium, shaped like a Club weapon club so it was named Indian club . The design of the Nal , as the equipment was referred to, can be seen as a ... more details
found in the Paria River the Catostomus latipinnis flannel mouth sucker , Catostomus discobolusdiscobolus bluehead sucker , razorback sucker , and speckled dace . ref name wildlife Vegetation ... more details
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