Anaxagoras of Aegina

Anaxagoras (Ancient Greek: Ἀναξαγόρας) of Aegina was a sculptor who lived around 480 BCE, and created the statue of Zeus in bronze set up at Olympia by the states which had united in repelling the invasion of Xerxes I of Persia.[1] He is supposed to be the same person as the sculptor mentioned in an epigram by Anacreon,[2] but not the same as the writer on scene-painting mentioned by Vitruvius.

Notes
  1. Pausanias, Description of Greece, v. 23. ~ 2
  2. Anacreon, Greek Anthology, i. p. 55, No. 6, Jacobs

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Smith, Philip (1870). "Anaxagoras". In Smith, William (ed.). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. 1. p. 163.

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