AGESANDER  , a Rhodian sculptor, whose See also:

• TITLE (0. Fr. title, mod. titre, from Lat. titulus)

title to fame is that he is mentioned by See also:

• PLINY, THE ELDER
• PLINY, THE YOUNGER

Pliny (Nat . Hist. See also:

• XXXVI

xxxvi . 37) as author (with Polydorus and See also:

• ATHENODORUS

Athenodorus) of the See also:

• GROUP

group of the See also:

• LAOCOON

Laocoon . See also:

• INSCRIPTIONS (from Lat. inscribere, to write upon)

Inscriptions recently found at Lindus in See also:

• RHODES
• RHODES, CECIL JOHN (1853-1902)
• RHODES, JAMES FORD

Rhodes date Agesander and Athenodorus to the See also:

• PERIOD
• PERIOD (Gr. irepioSos, a going or way round, circuit, aepi, round, and &Sis, way, road)

period 42-21 B.C . The date of the Laocoon seems thus finally settled, after See also:

• LONG, GEORGE (1800-1879)
• LONG, JOHN DAVIS (1838– )

long controversy . It represents the See also:

• CULMINATION (from Lat. culmen, summit)

culmination of a sentimental or pathetic tendency in See also:

• ART

art, which is prominent in the somewhat earlier See also:

• SCULPTURE
• SCULPTURE (Lat. sculptura, from sculpere, to carve, cognate with Gr. yXb4ew)

sculpture of See also:

• PERGAMUM, or PERGAMTS (mod. Bergama)

Pergamum .