So far everything is clear and if we suppose Ageladas to have been born about 540 BC, he may very well have been the instructor of Phidias.

In order to reconcile these conflicting statements, some suppose that Pliny's date is wrong and that the statue of Heracles had been made by Ageladas long before it was set up at Melite.

Others think that Pliny's date is correct, but that Ageladas did not make the statues of the Olympic victors mentioned by Pausanias until many years after their victories ; which in the case of three persons, the dates of whose victories are so nearly the same, would be a very extraordinary coincidence.

3 1? 33 ), its chief temples and statues, its springs, its market-place and gymnasium, its place of sacrifice, the tomb of the hero Aristomenes and the temple of Zeus Ithomatas on the summit of the acropolis with a statue by the famous Argive sculptor Ageladas, originally made for the Messenian helots who had settled at Naupactus at the close of the third Messenian War.

To these authorities must be added a passage of Pausanias, where he speaks of a statue of Zeus made by Ageladas for the Messenians of Naupactus.

He was of Argos, where he must have received his early training, and a contemporary of Phidias ( possibly also taught by Ageladas ).

Ageladas the Argive executed one of a group of three Muses, representing respectively the presiding geniuses of the diatonic, chromatic and enharmonic styles of Greek music.

The determination of the period when Ageladas flourished has given rise to a great deal of discussion, owing to the apparently contradictory statements in the writers who mention the name.

This agrees with the statement of the scholiast on Aristophanes, that at Melite there was a statue of Heracles (), the work of Ageladas the Argive, which was set up during the great pestilence ( Olympiad lxxxvii.

On the other hand Pliny says that Ageladas, with Polykleitos, Phradmon, and Myron, flourished in the 87th Olympiad.

Ageladas ( Gr. ) or Hagelaidas, was a celebrated Greek ( Argive ) sculptor, who flourished in the latter part of the 6th and the early part of the 5th century BC.

Pausanias tells us that Ageladas cast a statue of Cleosthenes ( who gained a victory in the chariot-race in the 66th Olympiad ) with the chariot, horses, and charioteer which was set up at Olympia.

Other scholars assume that there were two artists of the name of Ageladas, but both were Argives.

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According to Pliny's Natural History, Ageladas of Argos was his teacher.

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