Apollonius of Tralles

Apollonius and his brother Tauriscus came from Tralles in Asia Minor and worked in the Rhodian tradition of dramatic, many-figured marble groups. Pliny records their group of Zethus and Amphion tying Dirce to a wild bull, carved from a single block, which the Roman collector Asinius Pollio brought from Rhodes. The Farnese Bull in Naples is a Roman version of it. Pliny adds that the brothers named their teacher Menecrates as their father, though their natural father was Artemidorus.