Strongylion, a Greek sculptor, the author of a bronze figure of a horse set up on the Acropolis of Athens late in the 5th century BC, which represented the wooden horse of Troy with the Greek heroes inside it and looking forth. The inscribed base of this statue has been found.[1]
Other works of the sculptor were a figure of Artemis at Megara, a group of the Muses, a statuette of a boy of which Brutus was very fond of, and an Amazon which was greatly admired by the emperor Nero.
References
edit- ^ Corso, Antonio (2004). "First Chapter. Section f. Strongylion". The Art of Praxiteles. Studia Archaeologica. Roma: <<L'Erma>> die Bretschneider. pp. 55–74. The inscription is IG I3 895.
- This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Strongylion". Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.
