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Agasias

1911 Encyclopedia Britannica

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There were two Greek sculptors of this name. Agasias, son of Dositheus, has signed the remarkable statue called the Borghese Warrior, in the Louvre. Agasias, son of Menophilus, is the author of another striking figure of a warrior in the museum of Athens. Both belonged to the school of. Ephesus and flourished about loo B.C.

See E. A. Gardner, Handbook of Greek Sculpture, ii. p. 475.

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Chisholm, Hugh, General Editor. Entry for 'Agasias'. 1911 Encyclopedia Britanica. https://www.studylight.org/​encyclopedias/​eng/​bri/​a/agasias.html. 1910.
 
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