The display took place in the Agora.

Pericles presided.

At his side was Aspasia.

Phidias, Socrates, Sophocles, and other renowned men stood near him.
The works of the great masters were there.

But one group, far more beautiful than the rest,--a group that Apollo himself must have chiseled,--challenged universal attention, exciting at the same time no little envy among rival artists.
"Who is the sculptor of this group ?" None could tell.