( fl Athens, ?c. 400–c. 360 BC). Greek sculptor. Although none of his works (mainly bronze portraits) survive, the signatures of Demetrios on bases of statues that he made suggest a date in the early 4th century BC (Inscr. Gr./2, ii, 3828, 4321, 4322 and 4895). He was celebrated for the uncompromising realism of his portrayals. Quintilian (Principles of Oratory XII.i.9–10) stated that he was ‘criticized because he was too realistic and was hence more fond of verisimilitude than of beauty’, and Lucian of Samosata (Philopseudes xviii) described his portrait of the Corinthian general Pellichos as showing the sitter ‘with a pot belly, a bald head, half exposed by the hang of his garment, with some of the hairs of his beard blown by the wind and with his veins showing clearly’. Even though the statue may be an invention of Lucian for comic effect, the description of a brutally realistic portrait must have been plausible to his readers.