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Hagesander (general)
Agesander (or Agesandros or Hagesander or Hagesandros or Hegesander) can refer to more than one thing: *Agesander of Rhodes, one or several sculptors who lived between about 70 BC and 70 AD, and signed "Laocoön and his Sons" in the Vatican Museums and the sculptures at Sperlonga * Agesander (Hades), an epithet of the Greek god Hades *Hegesander (historian) Hegesander ( grc-gre, Ἡγήσανδρος) was an ancient Greek historian, and a citizen of Delphi. Besides an historical work, called ''Commentaries'' (Greek: ''Hypomnemata''), which consisted of at least six books, and seems to have been of a so ... from Delphi * ''Agesander'' (grasshopper), a genus of insects See also * Hegesandridas {{hndis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Agesander Of Rhodes
Agesander (also ''Agesandros'', ''Hagesander'', ''Hagesandros'', or ''Hagesanderus''; grc, Ἀγήσανδρος or grc, Ἁγήσανδρος) was one, or more likely, several Greek sculptors from the island of Rhodes, working in the first centuries BC and AD, in a late Hellenistic "baroque" style.Boardman, 199–201 If there was more than one sculptor called Agesander they were very likely related to each other. The very important works of the groups of ''Laocoön and his Sons'', in the Vatican Museums, and the sculptures discovered at Sperlonga are both signed by three sculptors including an Agesander. Sculptures The name Agesander is only found in ancient literature in Pliny the Elder, but occurs in several inscriptions, though between them these certainly refer to a number of different individuals. Until the discovery at Sperlonga in 1959, only one work which Agesander executed was known, although this is one of the most famous of all classical sculptures. Pliny records t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Agesander (Hades)
Hades (; grc-gre, ᾍδης, Háidēs; ), in the ancient Greek religion and myth, is the god of the dead and the king of the underworld, with which his name became synonymous. Hades was the eldest son of Cronus and Rhea, although this also made him the last son to be regurgitated by his father. He and his brothers, Zeus and Poseidon, defeated their father's generation of gods, the Titans, and claimed rulership over the cosmos. Hades received the underworld, Zeus the sky, and Poseidon the sea, with the solid earth, long the province of Gaia, available to all three concurrently. In artistic depictions, Hades is typically portrayed holding a bident and wearing his helm with Cerberus, the three-headed guard dog of the underworld, standing to his side. The Etruscan god Aita and the Roman gods Dis Pater and Orcus were eventually taken as equivalent to Hades and merged into Pluto, a Latinisation of Plouton ( grc-gre, , Ploútōn), itself a euphemistic title often given to H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
