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BOETHUS

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Originally appearing in Volume V04, Page 116 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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BOETHUS  , a sculptor of the Hellenistic

age, a native of Carthage (or possibly Chalcedon) . His date cannot be accurately fixed, but was probably the 2nd century B.C . He was noted for his representations of children, in dealing with whom earlier Greek
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art had not been very successful; and especially for a
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group representing a boy struggling with a goose, of which several copies survive in museums .

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