A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology

Smith, William

A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology. William Smith, LLD, ed. 1890

(Φιλεύμενος), a sculptor, whose name was for the first time discovered in 1808. in an inscription on the support of the left foot of a statue in the Villa Albani, where there is also another statue evidently by the same hand Zoega, to whom we owe the publication of the

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artist's name, supposes that these statues, which are of Pentelic marble, belong to the Attic school of sculpture, in the age of Hadrian. (Zoega's Leben, vol. ii. p. 366; Welcker, Kunstblatt, 1827, pp. 330, 331 R. Rochette, Lettre à M. Schorn, pp. 380, 381.)

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