부산대학교 도서관

(fl second half of 4th century bc). Greek sculptor. Though his name shows him to have been a native of Caria in Asia Minor, he was trained in Athens. There his name first occurs c. 350 bc on a signed marble base (Athens, N. Archaeol. Mus., 1733), which carries a dedication relating to the victories of an Athenian family in the anthippasia (a horsemanship contest). On the three subsidiary sides of the base are inferior quality low-relief carvings of horsemen and tripods. Indeed, the base may have supported a bronze tripod. Bryaxis was described as a ‘bronzeworker’ by Pliny (Natural History XXXIV.lxxiii), who recorded two of his works, an Asklepios and a portrait of Seleukos I Nikator (reg 305–281 bc; both untraced). It is not certain if the former was the statue of Asklepios by Bryaxis that Pausanias (Guide to Greece I.xl.6) saw, together with a statue of Hygieia by him in Megara (both untraced)....