Crossword-Solution: DISCOBOLUS
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Discobolus | n. | A thrower of the discus. |
| Discobolus | n. | A statue of an athlete holding the discus, or about to throw it. |
We have 2 clues for the answer “DISCOBOLUS”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Classic Greek statue by Myron. | 1 answer |
| discus thrower | 1 answer |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
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Sentences with DISCOBOLUS (5)
Himself, as a living man, were too loathsome for words; but here, thanks to Hokusai, he is not less admirable than Pheidias' Hermes, or the Discobolus himself.
What I would remark is the difference of this attention from that of the Discobolus, who is engaged in the same purpose, watching the effect of his Discus.
Through the variations of the copyist, the restorer, the mere imitator, these works are reducible to two famous original types--the Discobolus or quoit-player, of Myron, the beau idéal (we may use that term for once justly) of athletic motion; and the Diadumenus of Polycleitus, as, binding the fillet or crown of victory upon his head, he presents the beau idéal of athletic repose, and almost begins to think.
Yet if the art of Myron was but little occupied with the reasonable soul (animus), with those mental situations the expression of which, though [287] it may have a pathos and a beauty of its own, is for the most part adverse to the proper expression of youth, to the beauty of youth, by causing it to be no longer youthful, he was certainly a master of the animal or physical soul there (anima); how it is, how it displays itself, as illustrated, for instance, in the Discobolus.
The eyes, the facial lines which they gather into one, seem ready to follow the coming motion of the discus as those of an onlooker might be; [289] but that head does not really belong to the discobolus.
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (1955).