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Silanion

400 BC - 360 BC

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Silanion (Ancient Greek: Σιλανίων, gen. Σιλανίωνος) was the best-known of the Greek portrait-sculptors working during the fourth century BC. Pliny gives his floruit as the 113th Olympiad, that is, around 328–325 BCE (Natural History, 34.51), and records he had no famous teacher. His idealized portrait head of Plato was commissioned by Mithridates of Persia for the Academy of Athens, c. 370 BC. Later copies of it and of an idealized portrait head of Sappho survive. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Silanion is the 114th most popular sculptor (down from 77th in 2019), the 483rd most popular biography from Greece (down from 387th in 2019) and the 15th most popular Greek Sculptor.

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Among SCULPTORS

Among sculptors, Silanion ranks 114 out of 258. Before him are Augustin Pajou, Carl Milles, Georg Rafael Donner, Medardo Rosso, John Flaxman, and Yevgeny Vuchetich. After him are Kresilas, Apollonius of Tralles, Emmanuel Frémiet, Daniel Buren, Maurizio Cattelan, and Vulca.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 400 BC, Silanion ranks 56. Before him are Aeacides of Epirus, Polykleitos the Younger, Cynane, Ada of Caria, Archidamus IV, and Axiothea of Phlius. After him are Publius Decius Mus, Antipater Etesias, Hecataeus of Abdera, Palaephatus, Lais of Hyccara, and Metrocles. Among people deceased in 360 BC, Silanion ranks 11. Before him are Artabazos II, Lais of Corinth, Dinocrates, Aeschines of Sphettus, Campaspe, and Polykleitos the Younger. After him are Palaephatus, Timotheus of Miletus, Lais of Hyccara, Bryaxis, Philitas of Cos, and Quintus Hortensius.

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In Greece

Among people born in Greece, Silanion ranks 483 out of 1,024. Before him are Archidamus IV (-400), Axiothea of Phlius (-400), Tommy Lee (1962), Achilles Painter (-470), Spyridon Samaras (1861), and Alexandros Koryzis (1885). After him are Krste Misirkov (1874), Kresilas (-480), Dorieus (-600), Aristarchus of Thessalonica (5), Eusebia (400), and Agis I (-957).

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Among SCULPTORS In Greece

Among sculptors born in Greece, Silanion ranks 15. Before him are Alcamenes (-500), Chares of Lindos (-400), Ageladas (-600), Antenor (-590), Polykleitos the Younger (-400), and Agoracritus (-500). After him are Kresilas (-480), Cephisodotus the Younger (-400), and Damophon (null).

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