Callon of Aegina
Kallon (also: Kalon ; * in Aigina ) was a Greek sculptor. He was active around the time of Kanachos from Sikyon , in the period from the 70th to the 80th Olympic Games (500 to 460 BC), and is considered a student of Tectaios and Angelion .
Kallon created a brazen tripod for Amyklai , between whose feet the figure of Persephone stood, and for the castle at Corinth a wooden statue of Athena Sthenias. Whether the Aeginian gable groups come from Kallon himself is controversial, but they should correspond to his style.
It should not be associated with the eponymous , around 400 BC. B.C. active bronze sculptors from Elis , whose main work was a group anathem in Olympia .
literature
- Callon of Aegina. In: The New Pauly (DNP). Volume 6, Metzler, Stuttgart 1999, ISBN 3-476-01476-2 .
- Wilhelm Ihne : Callon 1 . In: William Smith (Ed.): Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology . tape 1 : Abaeus – Dysponteus . Little, Brown and Company, Boston 1870, p. 580 (English, Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
- Kalon . In: Meyers Großes Konversations-Lexikon . 6th edition. Volume 10, Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig / Vienna 1907, p. 490 .
- Kallon . In: Meyers Konversations-Lexikon . 4th edition. Volume 9, Verlag des Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig / Vienna 1885–1892, pp. 409–409.
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| SURNAME | Callon of Aegina |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Kalon; Callon; Kallon |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Greek sculptor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 6th century BC Chr. |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Aigina |
| DATE OF DEATH | 6th century BC BC or 5th century BC Chr. |