Harry Thurston Peck, Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898), D, Diminutio Capĭtis, Dinocrătes

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Dinocrătes

（Δεινοκράτης). A very celebrated Macedonian architect, who offered to cut Mount Athos into a statue of Alexander. (See Athos.) That monarch took him to Egypt, and employed him in several works of art. Ptolemy Philadelphus directed him to construct a temple for his queen, Arsinoë, after her death; and the intention was to have the ceiling of lodestone and the statue of iron, in order that the latter might appear to be suspended in the air. The death of the artist himself frustrated the undertaking (Plin. H. N. xxxiv. 42). See Ephesus, p. 599.

Harry Thurston Peck. Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities. New York. Harper and Brothers. 1898.

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