Damophon

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Damophon (2nd century BC) was an ancient Greek sculptor of the Hellenistic period from Messene, who executed many statues for the people of Messene, Megalopolis, Aegium and other cities of Peloponnesus. His statues were acroliths. Considerable fragments, including three colossal heads from a group by him representing Demeter, Persephone, Artemis and the Titan Anytus, were discovered on the site of Lycosura in Arcadia, where was a temple of the goddess called The Mistress. They were preserved in part in the museum in Athens and partly on the spot. Damophon also restored Phidias' statue of the Greek god Zeus, which had been damaged in an earthquake.

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