Argius

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Argius (Template:Langx) was a sculptor of ancient Greece who was the disciple of Polykleitos, and therefore flourished about 388 BCE.[1]

The 19th century classical scholar Friedrich Thiersch supposed that Pliny the Elder, in the words "Argius, Asopodorus," mis-translated his Greek authority, which had Ἀργεῖος Ἀσωπόδωρος, or "Asopodorus the Argive."[2] But "Argius" is found as a Greek proper name in both the forms, Ἄργιος and Ἀργεῖος.[3][4]

References

  1. Pliny the Elder, Natural History 34.19
  2. Friedrich Thiersch, Epochen, p. 275
  3. Apollonius of Rhodes, Argonautica 2.1.5
  4. Aristoph. Eccl. 201

File:PD-icon.svg This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domainSmith, Philip (1870). "Argius". In Smith, William (ed.). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. 1. p. 280.