Aetion

Aetion

Aetion

3rd-century BC Greek artist


Aetion /ˈʃən/ (Ancient Greek: Αετίων) was an ancient Greek sculptor of Amphipolis,[1] mentioned by Callimachus[2] and Theocritus,[3] from whom we learn that at the request of Nicias, a famous physician of Miletus, he executed a statue of Asclepius in cedar wood. He flourished about the middle of the 3rd century BC. There was an engraver of the same name; but when he lived is not known.[4]


References

  1. Smith, William (1870), "Aetion (1)", in Smith, William (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, vol. 1, Boston, MA, p. 51, archived from the original on 2010-06-08, retrieved 2007-11-04{{citation}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  2. Callimachus, Anth. Gr. ix. 336
  3. Theocritus, Epigr. vii
  4. Karl Otfried Müller, Arch. der Kunst, p. 151.

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