Phidian

American  

[fid-ee-uhn] / ˈfɪd i ən /

adjective

1. of, associated with, or following the style of Phidias, as exemplified in the Parthenon.

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Other Word Forms

• post-Phidian adjective
• pre-Phidian adjective

Etymology

Origin of Phidian

First recorded in 1800–10; Phidi(as) + -an

Example Sentences

Hear him but speak, and you will feel The shadows of the Portico Over your tranquil spirit steal, To modulate all joy and woe To one subdued, subduing glow; Above our squabbling business-hours, Like Phidian Jove's, his beauty lowers, His nature satirizes ours; A form and front of Attic grace, He shames the higgling market-place, And dwarfs our more mechanic powers.

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To let a Phidian colossus, with a face high-colored like a comic mask, outstrip thee!

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If she be silent, silence let it be; He who would bid her speak might sit and sue The deep-brow'd Phidian Jove to be untrue To his two thousand years' solemnity.

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He laughs a little at Goethe; he fails to see that the Phidian Zeus, at whose confined position he jests, was the greatest liberator of them all; but for the most part his mocking sarcasm is here silent.

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The old wonders of the world were the Pyramids, the Hanging Gardens of Babylon, the Phidian statue of Jupiter, the Mausoleum, the Temple of Diana at Ephesus, the Colossus of Rhodes, and the Pharos of Alexandria.

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