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AGELADAS, or (as the name is spelt in an inscription) HAGELAIDAS  , a
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great Argive sculptor, who flourished in the latter
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part of the 6th and the
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early part of the 5th
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century B.C . He was specially noted for his statues of Olympic victors (of 520, 516, 508 B.C.); also for a statue at
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Messene of
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Zeus, copied on the coins of that
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city .
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Ageladas was said to have been the teacher of
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Myron, Phidias and
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Polyclitus; this tradition is a testimony to his wide fame, though historically doubtful . We have no
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work of Ageladas surviving; but we have an inscription which contains the name of his son Argeiadas .

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