Phidian
adjective
of, associated with, or following the style of Phidias, as exemplified in the Parthenon.
pre-Phidian
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a word derived from
Phidian.
Example Sentences
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A certain pre-Phidian stiffness of handling seems to hamper the workman, as though twenty-three hundred years had been lost for him.
From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science October, 1877. Vol XX - No. 118 by Various
This is eminently the case with the Metopes, which can hardly be later in date than 460 B. C., or pre-Phidian in time.
From Rambles and Studies in Greece by J. P. Mahaffy
