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'''Alexis''' ([[Ancient Greek]]: {{lang|grc|Ἄλεξις}}) was an ancient Greek sculptor and statuary, mentioned by [[Pliny the Elder|Pliny]] as one of the pupils of [[Polykleitos]].<ref name="hn">[[Pliny the Elder]], ''[[Natural History (Pliny)|Naturalis Historia]]'' xxxiv. 8. s. 19</ref> [[Pausanias (geographer)|Pausanias]] mentions an artist of the same name, a native of [[Sicyon]], and father of the sculptor Cantharus.<ref>[[Pausanias (geographer)|Pausanias]], ''Description of Greece'' vi. 3. § 3</ref> It cannot be satisfactorily settled whether these are the same, or different persons. Pliny's account implies that he had the elder [[Polykleitos]] in mind, in which case Alexis could not have flourished later than [[Olympiad]] 95 |
'''Alexis''' ([[Ancient Greek]]: {{lang|grc|Ἄλεξις}}) was an ancient Greek sculptor and statuary, mentioned by [[Pliny the Elder|Pliny]] as one of the pupils of [[Polykleitos]].<ref name="hn">[[Pliny the Elder]], ''[[Natural History (Pliny)|Naturalis Historia]]'' xxxiv. 8. s. 19</ref> [[Pausanias (geographer)|Pausanias]] mentions an artist of the same name, a native of [[Sicyon]], and father of the sculptor Cantharus.<ref>[[Pausanias (geographer)|Pausanias]], ''Description of Greece'' vi. 3. § 3</ref> It cannot be satisfactorily settled whether these are the same, or different persons. Pliny's account implies that he had the elder [[Polykleitos]] in mind, in which case Alexis could not have flourished later than [[Olympiad]] 95 in 400 BC, whereas [[Eutychides]], under whom Cantharus studied, flourished about [[Olympiad]] 120 in 300.<ref name="hn"/> If the two were identical, as German classicist [[Friedrich Thiersch]] thinks, we must suppose either that Pliny made a mistake, and that Alexis studied instead under [[Polykleitos the Younger]], or else that [[Eutychides]], whose date is given by Pliny, was not the artist under whom Cantharus studied.<ref>[[Friedrich Thiersch]], ''Epochen der bild. Kunst.'' p. 276</ref><ref name="DGRBM">{{cite encyclopedia | last = Mason | first = Charles Peter | title = Alexis | editor = [[William Smith (lexicographer)|William Smith]] | encyclopedia = [[Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology]] | volume = 1 | pages = 129 | publisher = [[Little, Brown and Company]] | location = Boston | year = 1867 | url = http://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/pageviewer-idx?c=moa;cc=moa;idno=acl3129.0001.001;q1=demosthenes;size=l;frm=frameset;seq=144}}</ref> |
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Alexis (Ancient Greek: Ἄλεξις) was an ancient Greek sculptor and statuary, mentioned by Pliny as one of the pupils of Polykleitos.[1] Pausanias mentions an artist of the same name, a native of Sicyon, and father of the sculptor Cantharus.[2] It cannot be satisfactorily settled whether these are the same, or different persons. Pliny's account implies that he had the elder Polykleitos in mind, in which case Alexis could not have flourished later than Olympiad 95 in 400 BC, whereas Eutychides, under whom Cantharus studied, flourished about Olympiad 120 in 300.[1] If the two were identical, as German classicist Friedrich Thiersch thinks, we must suppose either that Pliny made a mistake, and that Alexis studied instead under Polykleitos the Younger, or else that Eutychides, whose date is given by Pliny, was not the artist under whom Cantharus studied.[3][4]
Notes
- ^ a b Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia xxxiv. 8. s. 19
- ^ Pausanias, Description of Greece vi. 3. § 3
- ^ Friedrich Thiersch, Epochen der bild. Kunst. p. 276
- ^ Mason, Charles Peter (1867). "Alexis". In William Smith (ed.). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Vol. 1. Boston: Little, Brown and Company. p. 129.
References
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Smith, William, ed. (1870). "Alexis". Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology.