Perry, Walter Copland: Greek and Roman sculpture: a popular introduction to the history of Greek and Roman sculpture (London, 1882)

ARTISTS OF ASIA MINOR.

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CHAPTER L.

ARTISTS OF ASIA MINOR.

Many of these appear to have settled in Italy, and to have been
employed by distinguished and wealthy Romans. The best known
of them was

Agasias, Sox of Dositheos of Ephesus,

who seems to have belonged to a family of artists, as we read in an
inscription the name of an earlier Agasias, son of Menophilos, also
of Ephesus.' The later Agasias is known as the sculptor of the so-
called ' Borghese Gladiator.' Cavaceppi attributes the Discobolus in
the British Museum to this artist.
The name of

Heraclides, Sox of Hagxos2

°f Ephesus, appears on the trunk of a tree by the side of a statue in
the Louvre restored as A res?

Archelaus, Sox of Apollonius

°f I'rienc,4 was the author of the famous relief in the British Museum
called the Apotheosis of Homer, which was found in the middle of the
seventeenth century near the Via Appia, on the site of the old town
of Bovillae. ___

' Corp. ftuc Gr. No. 2285. ' Clarac, Mus. dc LtUVTt, pL 313, f.

Corp. /. xSr, No. 6152. This reading 1439-
1!> OOObtfuL Vide Bona, A'. G. p. 572. 1 Corp. Imi. Gr. No. 6131.