Agasias
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Agasias was the name of several different people in Classical history, including two different Greek sculptors.
- Agasias of ArcadiaAgasias of ArcadiaAgasias was a Stymphalian of Arcadia who was frequently mentioned by Xenophon as a brave and active officer in the army of the Ten Thousand. He was an acquaintance of both Hieron and Xenophon. In his youth, he achieved an Olympic victory, and hired Pindar to compose a song of celebration. He...
, a warrior mentioned by Xenophon - Agasias, son of DositheusAgasias, son of DositheusAgasias , son of Dositheus, was an ancient Greek sculptor of Ephesus. One of the productions of his chisel, the statue known by the name of the Borghese Gladiator, is still preserved in the gallery of the Louvre. This statue was discovered among the ruins of a palace of the Roman emperors on the...
, 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. Like the above sculptor, he belonged to the school of EphesusEphesusEphesus was an ancient Greek city, and later a major Roman city, on the west coast of Asia Minor, near present-day Selçuk, Izmir Province, Turkey. It was one of the twelve cities of the Ionian League during the Classical Greek era...
and flourished approximately 100 BC.