Ageladas

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Ageladas, or (as the name is spelt in an inscription) Hagelaidas, was a celebrated Argive sculptor, who flourished in the latter part of the 6th and the early part of the 5th century BC.

He was specially noted for his statues of Olympic victors (of 520, 516, 508 BC), and for a statue of Zeus at Messene, copied on the coins of that city. Ageladas was said to have been the teacher of Myron, Phidias, and Polyclitus; this tradition is a testimony to his wide fame, though historically doubtful.

None of Ageladas' work survives, though there is an inscription that contains the name of his son Argeiadas.

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