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 Arcesilas was placed in a shrine of cypress, hard by the statue which the bow-bearing Cretans set in the Parnassian house [the temple], the statue in one piece of native growth": |  (Pyth. v. 37). The image was doubtless a piece of wood that had grown in some shape which was fancied to resemble the human form; though  does not seem to exclude the supposition that this likeness had been developed by rough carving. The name  would at least not have been given to a shapeless log, such as once symbolised Athene at Lindus and Artemis at Icarus. Daedalus was especially associated with wood-carving, as at Athens, where a guild of wood-carvers bore his name, and two Cretan "Daedalidae"—Dipoenus and Scyllis, about 500 B.C.—are said to have made a wooden image  of the Munychian Artemis for Sicyon (Clem. Protrept. iv. 42).

§ 29. To these notices of early work in metal and in wood, I would add Pindar's mention of arts for which Corinth had early been famous. Olymp. xiii. 16, | . "Many devices, from olden time, have the flower-crowned Hours put in the hearts of (Corinthian) men; and every work is his who wrought it first." What are these ? As examples, Pindar mentions (1) the development of the dithyramb, (2) certain improvements in the appliances for harnessing and