| Apollo Sauroktonos | "Lizard
Slayer," bronze of ca. 350 B.C. Pliny the Elder, Natural History 34.69-70: Praxiteles also, though more successful and consequently better known as a worker in marble, created admirable works in bronze: ...He...made a young Apollo with an arrow watching a lizard as it creeps up with intent to slay it close at hand; this is known as the sauroktonos or Lizard-slayer. |