Author(s):
Neudecker, Richard (Rome)
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Badian, Ernst (Cambridge, MA)
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Nutton, Vivian (London)
(Γλαυκίας;
Glaukías). [German version] [1] Bronze sculptor from Aegina Bronze sculptor from Aegina. According to Pausanias, he created statues of the boxers Glaucus, Philo and Theagenes in Olympia, whose victories or honours occurred in the 1st quarter of the 5th cent. BC. According to the description, they were depicted in motion, some of them at shadow-boxing; small bronze statues give at least an idea of this. He created a monument for Gelon of Syracuse after his chariot victory in 488 BC; parts of the base with inscriptions are preserved. Neudecker, Richard (Rome) Bibliography Overbeck, no. 429-432 (sources) Loewy, no. 28 P. Orlandini, s.v. G., EAA 3, 954 F. Eckstein, Anathemata, 54-60 E. Walter-Karydi, Die äginetische Bildhauerschule, 1987, 35-39 J. J. Pollitt, The Art of Ancient Greece. Sources and Documents 2, 1990, 39-41. [German version] [2] King of the Taulantii King of the Taulantii, dates of birth and death are unknown. In 335 BC he supported Cleitus against Alexander [4] and granted him asylum after their joint defeat (Arr. Anab. 1,5f.). After the expulsion of Aeacides [2], related to his wife, by the Molossi, he protected Pyrrhus, the son of the latter, against Cassander in 317, who could neither buy nor force his being handed over; he adopted Pyrrhus and led him back to the Molossian throne in 306 (Diod. Sic. 19,67,5f.; …