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Asterion

Ancient Greek sculptor, son of Aeschylus

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About Asterion

Asterion was a sculptor.

Asterion , son of Aeschylus, was a sculptor of ancient Greece. His time is uncertain, and we know only that he lived in or before the 2nd century BCE. The geographer Pausanias mentions a statue of his depicting a boy named "Chaereas son of Chaeremon", a young Sicyonian pugilist, which was of his workmanship.

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Asterion son of Aeschylus

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Who was Asterion?

ancient Greek sculptor, son of Aeschylus

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Asterion was a sculptor.

Sources & further reading

· Wikipedia: Asterion

· Wikidata: Q101545531

· DBpedia: Asterion (sculptor)

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