a famous sculptor; contemporary with Pericles
Latin word, found 13 times in the texts on Socratos.
Ovid, Ex Ponto 4.1.32: bellica Phidiaca stat dea facta manu:
Juvenal, Saturae 3.8.103: Phidiacum vivebat ebur, nec non Polycliti
Martial, Epigrammata 3.35.1: Artis Phidiacae toreuma clarum