 According to Pliny's Natural History, Ageladas of Argos was his teacher.Myron worked almost exclusively in bronze and his fame rested principally upon his representations of athletes (including his iconic Diskobolos), in which he made a revolution, according to commentators in Antiquity, by introducing greater boldness of pose and a more perfect rhythm, subordinating the parts to the whole.Pliny's remark that Myron's works were "numerosior" than those of Polycleitus and "more diligent" seem to suggest that they were considered more harmonious in proportions ("numeri") and at the same time more convincing in realism