Ageladas

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Ageladas /ˌædʒəˈleɪdəs/ (Greek: Ἀγελάδας Agelā́dās) or Hagelaedas /ˌhædʒəˈliːdəs/ (Greek: Ἁγελᾴδας Hagelā́idās)[1] was a celebrated Greek (Argive) sculptor, who flourished in the latter part of the 6th and the early part of the 5th century BC.[2]

Ageladas' fame is enhanced by his having been the instructor of the three great masters, Phidias,[3][4][5] Myron, and Polykleitos.[6] The determination of the period when Ageladas flourished has given rise to a great deal of discussion, owing to the apparently contradictory statements of the writers who mention his name. Pausanias states that Ageladas cast a statue of Cleosthenes (who gained a victory in the chariot-race in the 66th Olympiad) with the chariot, horses, and charioteer placed at Olympia.[7]

Also at Olympia, there were statues by Ageladas of

scholiast on Aristophanes, that at Melite there was a statue of Heracles
(Ἡρακλῆς ἀλεξίκακος), the work of Ageladas the Argive, which was set up during the great pestilence at the 87th Olympiad.

To these authorities must be added a passage of Pausanias,

Naupactus. This must have been after the year 455, when the Messenians were allowed by the Athenians
to settle at Naupactus.

In order to reconcile these conflicting statements, it has been argued that Pliny's date is wrong and that the statue of Heracles had been made by Ageladas long before it was set up at Melite. Other scholars think that Pliny's date is correct, but that Ageladas did not make the statues of the Olympic victors mentioned by Pausanias until many years after their victories. Given that the dates of those individuals' victories are so nearly the same, this could be argued as being a very extraordinary coincidence.

The most probable solution of the difficulty is that proposed by Friedrich Thiersch, who thinks that there were two artists of this name: one an Argive, the instructor of Phidias, born about 540; the other a native of Sicyon, who flourished at the date assigned by Pliny and was confused by the scholiast on Aristophanes with his more illustrious Argive namesake. Thiersch supports this hypothesis by an able criticism of a passage of Pausanias.[9]

Other scholars assume that there were two artists with the name of Ageladas, but both were Argives. Ageladas the Argive executed one of a group of three

enharmonic styles of Greek music. Canachus and Aristocles of Sicyon made the other two.[10][11]

References

  1. ^ Mason, Charles Peter (1867), "Ageladas", in Smith, William (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, vol. 1, Boston, p. 67{{citation}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  2. ^ Pausanias, Description of Greece vi. 8. § 4, vii. 24. § 2, x. 10. § 3
  3. ^ Suda s.v.
  4. Scholiast ad Arist.
    Ran. 504
  5. Chiliades vii. 154, viii. 191—-for the names Ἐλάδου and Γελάδου are unquestionably merely corruptions of Ἀγελάδου, as was first observed by Johannes Meursius, with whom Johann Joachim Winckelmann, Friedrich Thiersch
    , and Müller agree
  6. ^ Pliny the Elder, Natural History xxxiv. 8, s. 19
  7. ^ Pausanias, Description of Greece vi. 10. §2
  8. ^ Pausanias, Description of Greece iv. 33. § 3
  9. ^ v. 24. § 1
  10. ^ Antipater of Sidon Greek Anthology 16.220
  11. ^ Friedrich Thiersch, Epoch, d. bild. Kunst. pp. 158–164
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