Agnaptus

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Agnaptus was an ancient Greek architect mentioned by Pausanias as the builder of a stoa, or porch, in the Altis at Olympia,[1] which was called by the Eleans the "porch of Agnaptus."[2] When he lived is uncertain.[3]

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  1. ^ Pausanias, Description of Greece v. 15, § 4, vi. 20. § 7
  2. ^ Leake, William Martin (1846). Peloponnesiaca: A Supplement to Travels on the Moréa. J. Rodwell. 
  3. ^ Mason, Charles Peter (1867), “Agnaptus”, in Smith, William, Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, vol. 1, Boston: Little, Brown and Company, pp. 74