Phradmon

Phradmon [Sometimes corrupted as "Phragmon"] (Gr. polytonic|Φράδμων) was a statuary from Agros,Citation
last = Smith
first = Philip
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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 ] whom Pliny places as the contemporary of Polykleitos, Myron, Pythagoras, Scopas, and Perelius, at Olympiad 90 in 420 BC. [Pliny the Elder, "Natural History" xxxiv. 8. s. 19, accord­ing to the reading of the Bamberg manuscript; the com­mon text places all these artists at Olympiad 87] He was one of those distinguished artists who entered into the celebrated competition mentioned by Pliny, each making an Amazon for the temple of Artemis at Ephesus: the fifth place was won by Phradmon, who seems to have been younger than either of the four who were preferred to him. Pausanias mentions his statue of the Olympic victor Amertas of Elis; [Pausanias, "Description of Greece" vi. 8. § 1] and there is an epigram by 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. ["Greek Anthology" ix. 743] [comp. Stephanus of Byzantium "s.v." polytonic|Ἴτων] Phradmon is also mentioned by Columella. [Columella, "De Re Rustica" x. 30]

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