( fl Athens, late 5th century-c. 365 BC). Greek sculptor. Little is known of him although he apparently received some State commissions in Athens. He collaborated with Kephisodotos on a bronze group of Muses on Mount Helikon (Pausanias: Guide to Greece IX.xxx.1), and his Artemis Soteira at Megara (Pausanias: I.xl.2-3) may have been the model for that by Kephisodotos in Megalopolis (Pausanias: VIII.xxx.10; after 368/367 BC). He achieved fame as a sculptor of animals. His Trojan Horse (Pausanias: I.xxiii.8; 414 BC) had political connotations, as perhaps did a bronze bull (Pausanias: I.xxiv.2). Two other works seem to have particularly appealed to Hellenistic and Roman taste: an Amazon 'with beautiful thighs', which was carried around by Nero's entourage, and a boy, which Brutus, Julius Caesar's murderer, liked so much that it came to be known as 'Brutus' Boy' (Pliny: Natural History XXXIV.82). These were perhaps admired for their erotic beauty, but also doubtless for their lifelike appearance.
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