Phidian
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- Of or relating to the Ancient Greek artist Phidias (Φειδίας; c. 480–430 BC), renowned for his sculpture.
- 1990, Camille Paglia, Sexual Personae:
- The Apollonian beautiful boy dramatizes the special horror of dissolved form to Pheidian Athens, with its passionate vision of the sunlit human figure.