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Discobolus (head modern) from Hadrian’s Villa in Tivoli Myron. Greek, 460-450 BCE (Roman copy). Height: 155 cm. Vatican, Sala della Biga. Inv. 2346. The Royal Cast Collection (Copenhagen, Denmark). Made with Memento Beta (now ReMake) from AutoDesk. For more updates, please follow @GeoffreyMarchal on Twitter.
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Marchal, G. (2017, October 17). Discobolus. World History Encyclopedia. https://www.worldhistory.org/image3d/179/discobolus/
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Marchal, Geoffrey. "Discobolus." World History Encyclopedia, October 17, 2017. https://www.worldhistory.org/image3d/179/discobolus/.
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