Epigonos biography for kids

Hellenistic sculptor

For other uses, see Epigonus (disambiguation).

Epigonus (Greek: Ἐπίγονος) of Pergamum^[1] was the chief among the court sculptors to the Attalid dynasty at Pergamum in the late third century BCE.

Biography

Pliny the Elder, who offers the only surviving list of the sculptors of this influential Pergamene school,^[2] attributes to him works among the sculptures on the victory monument erected by Attalus I in the sanctuary of Athena at Pergamum to commemorate his victory over the Gauls of Galatia ( BCE).

Among works there by other sculptors, Pliny attributes to Epigonos^[3] a masterful Trumpeter and "his infant pitiably engaged in caressing its murdered mother"; the male figure in his group, once part of the dedication of Attalus I at Pergamon, is probably the original of the marble copy known in modern times as The Dying Gaul,^[4] in the Capitoline Museums, Rome.^[5] The Weeping Child pitifully