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Anaxagoras of Aigina
( fl first quarter of the 5th century BC). Greek sculptor. The Greek city states that defeated the Persians at Plataia in 479 BC set aside a tithe for Zeus at Olympia from which was made a bronze statue of the god, 10 cubits tall. When Pausanias visited Olympia he saw the statue standing near the Bouleuterion and assigned it to Anaxagoras (Guide to Greece V.xxiii.1–3). The base of the statue was inscribed with the names of the dedicating city states. Diogenes Laertius (History of Philosophy II.xv) knew the sculptor’s name, and Anakreon (Greek Anthology I.lv.6) mentioned him in an epigram, but Anaxagoras is otherwise unknown.
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