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 by Pliny to have been the teacher of Myron and Polykleitos; other writers also make him the teacher of Phidias[1]. These traditions are 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.
[edit] Notes
- ^ Hegias/Hegesias is more often credited as the teacher of Phidias.
[edit] References
- Pausanias, Description of Greece, 6.14.11; 6.10.6, 6.8.6, 4.33.1–2, 7.24.4, and 10.10.6. Pausanias gives the subjects of Agelasdas' work but provides no descriptive details.
- Pliny's Natural History, 34.49, 55, 57.
- Jones, Stuart 1966. Select Passages from Ancient Writers Illustrative of the History of Greek Sculpture (Chicago), pp 33-35.
- This article incorporates text from the Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition, a publication now in the public domain.
