Agoracritus

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Agoracritus (Greek Ἀγοράκρειτος) (late 5th century BC) was a Parian and Athenian sculptor of the age of Phidias, and said to have been his favourite pupil.

His most noted work was the statue at Rhamnus of Nemesis, by some attributed to Phidias himself. Of this statue part of the head is in the British Museum; some fragments of the reliefs which adorned the pedestal are in the museum at Athens.

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• This article incorporates text from the Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition, a publication now in the public domain.

Also a character (the sausage seller) in Greek playwright Aristophanes' play The Knights