Artist · Greek and Roman Antiquity
Agasias of Ephesus
Greek · active c. 100 BCE · born Ephesus, Asia Minor
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Agasias, son of Dositheus, of Ephesus is known only from his signature on the base of the Borghese Gladiator, carved around 100 BCE. The life-size marble shows a nude warrior lunging forward, probably against a mounted opponent, with every muscle strained. Found at Anzio in the early 17th century, it became one of the most admired and copied antique statues in Europe. Whether other signed works by men named Agasias are by the same sculptor is unclear.
