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

1. Of Athens, a sculptor, made the statues of Pentelic marble, in the temples of Demeter, Aphrodite, and Dionysus, and Eileithuia at Bura in Achaia. (Paus. 7.25.5.) This town, as seen by Pausanias, had been rebuilt after its destruction by an earthquake, in B. C. 373/2. (Paus. l.c., comp. § 2.) The artist probably flourished, therefore, soon after this date.