Talk:Phidias
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I read in a book,The Golden Ratio and Fibonacci Numbers byRichard A. Dunlap (c. 1997, World Scientific Publishing Co. Ltd.) that theGolden Mean is called "phi" in reference to Phidias.
It's not clear from here or the cross-linkedGolden Ratio article here on Wikipedia whether this is considered correct or whether this particular Phidias is the same as the mathematician to which Dunlap refers.
Can anyone here confirm or refute this claim
Like this article,Thinkquest.com also states that Mark Barr was the first to represent the Golden Ratio using the Greek letter phi. The Wikipedia stub forMark Barr also links here to Phidias the sculptor. The main article here now justifies the connection by reference to Phidias' Parthenon scupltures. If this is right, the person who commented above was wrong in assuming that there was another Phidias (mathematician).
While I'm here, can't resist posting a mnemonic to Phidias' work:
There once was a sculptor named Phidias
Whose manners in art were invidious
He carved Aphrodite
Without any nightie
It startled the ultra fastidious
Go ahead, delete it if it's against the rules! :-)Fayenatic london23:16, 26 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]
I was under the impression that the seated statue of Zeus was built as a rivaling response to the statue of Athena. She was the largest at the time and those wanting to build something taller built the seated Zeus. Had he stood up, he would've been taller. Clever!I have always been fond of this story, but can't explain it now that you've said they were built and commissioned by the same people. How can this be?My source is the wonderful professor Susan Kane of Greek and Roman Architecture at Oberlin College.
I was told by an archeology student that it has recently been discovered that the inscription, "I belong to Pheidias", was in fact scratched into the cup by a student who wanted to play a joke on his/her professor. Don't have a proper source I'm afraid. (unsigned)
There aren't any, and I guess this article kind of needs them, as there's more information than would be normally in a single section. `T. S. Rice23:36, 22 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]
The deleted sections aren't very good, and they aren't well sourced, but surely we want to build on them. --Wetman22:29, 13 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Why does the 'love of the sculptor for an Elian boy' link to the Pederasty page? That such an 'Elian boy' exists is far from factual and its inclusion seems gratuitous. I have removed it as a point of principle.213.217.216.126—The precedingsigned but undated comment was added at 18:08, August 26, 2007 (UTC).
Was Phidias' father Charmides one of the Thirty Tyrants of Athens or was it another person who just happened to have the same name and living around the same time period?--Apilok (talk)20:23, 21 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]
I've reverted a good faith edit by an anon linking Archimedes whose father was also called Phidias in an unorthodos format. Do we want to incldue a proper dab link for thsi Phidias?--Peter cohen (talk)20:50, 9 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]
My statementshere on the book were made as a result ofthesetwo links.
Thanks,AndrewOne (talk)07:53, 12 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]
