Cephisodotus

Cephisodotus in Wikipedia

Cephisodotus (general) Cephisodotus (Greek: Κηφισόδοτος; lived 4th century BC) was an Athenian general and orator, who was sent with Callias, Autocles, and others in 371 BC to negotiate peace with Sparta.[1] Again, in 369 BC, when the Spartan ambassadors had come to Athens to settle the terms of the desired alliance between the states, and the Ath...

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Cephisodŏtus in Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities

(Κηφισόδοτος). A statuary of Athens, who flourished about B.C. 372. Two works of his are spoken of by the ancients-a Hermes nourishing Dionysus when an infant, and one of a public speaker in the act of delivering an oration. There was another sculptor of the same name, usually called "the Younger," the son of Praxiteles, who flourished at Athens i...

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