Antigonus (sculptor)

Antigonus (Ancient Greek: Ἀντίγονος) was a sculptor of ancient Greece, and an eminent writer upon his art, was one of the artists who represented the battles of Attalus I and Eumenes against the Gauls.^[1] He lived, therefore, about 239 BCE, when Attalus I, king of Pergamus, conquered the Gauls. A little further on, Pliny says,^[2] "Antigonus et perixyomenon, tyrannicidasque supra dictos," where one of the best manuscripts. has "Antignotus et luctatores, perixyomenon," &c.

Notes

1. Pliny the Elder, Natural History 34.19.24
2. Pliny the Elder, Natural History § 26

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Philip Smith (1870). "Antigonus". In Smith, William. Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology 1. p. 189.