Agesander of Rhodes

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Agesander, a Rhodian sculptor, whose title to fame is that he is mentioned by Pliny (Nat. Hist., xxxvi.37) as author (with Polydorus and Athenodorus) of the group of the Laocoön and his Sons. Inscriptions found at Lindus in Rhodes date Agesander and Athenodorus to the period 42 BC-21 BC. The date of the Laocoon seems thus finally settled, after long controversy. It represents the culmination of a sentimental or pathetic tendency in art, which is prominent in the somewhat earlier sculpture of Pergamum.

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