Phradmon

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::summary 5th-century BC Greek sculptor ::

Phradmon (Gr. Φράδμων) was a little-known sculptor from Argos,{{Citation | last = Smith | first = Philip | author-link = | contribution = Phradmon | editor-last = Smith | editor-first = William | title = Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology | volume = 1 | pages = 63 | publisher = | place = Boston | year = 1867 | contribution-url = http://www.ancientlibrary.com/smith-bio/0072.html | access-date = 2008-05-12 | archive-date = 2011-09-12 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20110912035532/http://ancientlibrary.com/smith-bio/0072.html | url-status = dead

Adolf Furtwängler identified the obscure Phradmon as a follower of Polykleitos, but Brunilde Sismondo Ridgway made a case for Phradmon's being a 4th-century BCE sculptor, in which case, for those who are convinced, "the possibility of contemporaneity collapses and with it the entire anecdote of the contest".

Pausanias mentions his statue of the Olympic victor Amertas of Elis, and there is an epigram attributed to Theodoridas of Syracuse, in the Greek Anthology, on a group of twelve bronze cows, made by Phradmon and dedicated to Athena Itonia, that is, Athena as worshiped at Iton in Thessaly, after an Illyrian campaign in 356 or 336 BCE. Phradmon is also mentioned by Columella.

In 1969, three statue bases were discovered at Ostia Antica, one of which had supported a statue of a certain Charite, priestess at Delphi, made by Phradmon of Argos; the inscriptions' form dates them to the 1st century BCE, suggesting that the sculptures had been re-erected on new bases repeating their former inscription.

References

References

1. Sometimes corrupted as ''Phragmon''
2. [[Pliny the Elder]], ''[[Natural History (Pliny). Natural History]]'' xxxiv. 8. s. 19, according to the reading of the Bamberg manuscript; the common text places all these artists at [[Olympiad]] 87
3. ''"quamquam diversis aetatibus geniti"''
4. Furtwängler, ''Meisterwerke der griechischen Plastik'', Berlin 1893:286-303.
5. Brunilde Sismondo Ridgway, "A Story of Five Amazons", ''American Journal of Archaeology,'' '''78'''.1 (January 1974:1-17) pp 2,
6. [[Pausanias (geographer). Pausanias]], ''Description of Greece'' vi. 8. § 1
7. ''[[Greek Anthology]]'' ix. 743
8. Compare [[Stephanus of Byzantium]] ''s.v.'' {{lang. grc. Ἴτων
9. [[Lucius Columella. Columella]], ''De Re Rustica'' x. 30
10. Ridgway 1974:9.

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