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In 4 June 470 BC Phaenarete, the wife of an Athenian sculptor, gave birth to her son Socrates... After spending several years in his father's workshop, he decided that his mission in life was not to be a sculptor of figures, but a moulder of souls. Right at the very entrance to the Acropolis are a Hermes (called Hermes of the Gateway) and figures of Graces, which tradition says were sculptured by Socrates, the son of Sophroniscus, who the Pythia testified was the wisest of men, a title she refused to Anacharsis, although he desired it and came to Delphi to win it. Pausanias ( As Moses Mendelssohn writes in THE LIFE AND CHARACTER OF SOCRATES : In the time of Phidias, Zeuxis, and Myron, no mediocre work could have been granted such an important place.) Socrates , sculptor and philosopher T Tauriscus (See Apollonius of Tralles) X Xenocrates of Athens (working in Sicyon) , author of painting and sculpture art (mentioned by Pliny the Elder) Z Zenodorus
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