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Cephisodotus
Cephisodotus was the name of two ancient Greek sculptors, the father and the son of the sculptor Praxiteles. The former must have flourished about 400 BC - c. 360 BC. A noted work of his was Peace bearing the infant Wealth (see Eirene, Plutus), of which a copy exists at Munich. Peace is a Madonna-like figure of a somewhat conservative type; the child Wealth is less successful.
Cephisodotus also made, like his son, a figure of Hermes carrying the child Dionysus, unless indeed ancient critics have made two works of one. He made certain statues for the city of Megalopolis, founded around 370 BC.
Of the work of the younger Cephisodotus, his grandson, we have no remains; he was a prolific sculptor of the latter part of the 4th century BC, especially noted for portraits, of Menander, of the orator Lycurgus, and others.
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