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That the office was accounted highly honourable appears from the fact, that the resentment of Harmodius, which instigated him to kill Hipparchus, arose from the insult offered by the latter in forbidding the sister of Harmodius to walk as canephoros in the Panathenaic procession (Thucyd. VI.56;
Aelian, V. H. XI.8). An antefixa in the British Museum (see woodcut) represents the two canephoroe approaching a candelabrum. Each of them elevates one arm to support the basket, while she slightly raises her tunic with the other. This attitude was much admired by ancient artists. Pliny
(HN XXXVI.4 s. 7)
mentions a marble canephoros by Scopas, and Cicero
(Verr. IV.3) describes a pair in bronze, which were the exquisite work of Polycleitus. [Caryatis]
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