Myron

Myron came from Eleutherae, on the border of Attica and Boeotia, and was a leading Athenian sculptor of the mid-5th century BCE; Pliny says he trained under Ageladas of Argos. He worked almost only in bronze and was famed for athletes caught in bold, complex poses. None of his originals survive: his Discobolus, frozen at the top of its swing, is known from Roman marble copies. Ancient writers praised a bronze heifer by him so lifelike that it inspired dozens of epigrams.