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Philiskos of Rhodes
( fl ?c. 100 BC). Greek sculptor and ?painter. Pliny (Natural History XXXVI.iv.34–5) saw several of his marble statues in Rome: an Apollo and a group consisting of Leto, Artemis, the Nine Muses and a Nude Apollo in the Temple of Apollo near the Portico of Octavia and an Aphrodite in the Temple of Juno in the Portico of Octavia. None of his works survives, however. Nothing is known of the style of these statues, and no sure connection can be made between them and later copies of similar subjects based on lost Greek originals. A base from Thasos for a female statue, of which a fragment perhaps survives (Istanbul, Archaeol. Mus.), is signed by Philiskos, son of Polycharmos of Rhodes, in lettering of the late 2nd century BC or early 1st. However, this need not be the same sculptor.
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