( fl early 5th century BC). Greek sculptor. In the absence of original statues or attributed copies, almost nothing can be said of his works or style; what little is known comes primarily from literary sources. Pausanias (Guide to Greece VIII.xlii.10) recorded that Hegias was an Athenian, a contemporary of Onatas of Aigina and of Ageladas, the reputed teacher of Myron and Polykleitos; Dio Chrysostomos (Orationes LV.1) referred to him as the teacher of Pheidias. Pliny cited him as a contemporary of Kritios and Nesiotes, and mentioned several statues by him (Natural History XXXIV.xix.49, 78): the Dioscouroi in front of the Temple of Jupiter Tonans in Rome; a group of boys riding racehorses; an Athena; King Pyrrhus, undoubtedly the son of Achilles rather than the Hellenistic king; and a Herakles. His signature survives on an inscribed statue base from the Athenian Acropolis (Inscr. Gr./2, i, 526) dated to before 480 BC, though confusion exists as to the spelling of the name in literary sources. Quintilian (Institutio oratoria XII.x.7) and Lucian (Rhetorum praeceptor IX) both referred to Hegesias as having a hard and sinewy style, which Lucian linked to that of Kritios and Nesiotes. Pliny (XXXIV.xix.78) cited Hagesias; both names are accepted as a corruption of Hegias.

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