AGESANDER  , a Rhodian sculptor, whose

title to fame is that he is mentioned by Pliny (Nat . Hist. xxxvi . 37) as author (with Polydorus and Athenodorus) of the group of the Laocoon . Inscriptions recently found at Lindus in Rhodes date Agesander and Athenodorus to the period 42-21 B.C . The date of the Laocoon seems thus finally settled, after long controversy . It represents the culmination of a sentimental or pathetic tendency in art, which is prominent in the somewhat earlier sculpture of Pergamum .