Apollodorus was a sculptor of
ancient Greece, who made statues in bronze. He was so fastidious that he often broke his works in pieces after they were finished, and hence he obtained the surname of "the madman", in which character he was represented by the sculptor
Silanion. Assuming from this that the two artists were contemporary, Apollodorus flourished about 324 BCE.
A little further on, Pliny names an Apollodorus among the artists who had made bronze statues of philosophers.
On the base of the
Venus de' Medici
The Venus de' Medici or Medici Venus is a tall Hellenistic marble sculpture depicting the Greek goddess of love Aphrodite. It is a 1st-century BC marble copy, perhaps made in Athens, of a bronze original Greek sculpture, following the type of th ...
, Apollodorus is mentioned as the father of the sculptor
Cleomenes Cleomenes may refer to:
* one of several kings of Sparta:
** Cleomenes I (c. 520 – c. 490 BC)
** Cleomenes II (370–309 BC)
** Cleomenes III (236–219 BC)
* Cleomenes of Naucratis (died 322 BC), Greek administrator
* Cleomenes the Cynic (c. 30 ...
. Classicist
Friedrich Thiersch suggests that he may have been the same person as the subject of this article, for that the statue of the latter by Silanion may have been made from tradition at any time after his death.
[ Friedrich Thiersch, ''Epochen'', p. 292] Apollodorus, however, is so common a Greek name that no such conclusion can be drawn from the mere mention of it.
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Ancient Greek sculptors
4th-century BC Greek people
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