Argius (Ancient Greek: Ἄργιος or Ἀργεῖος) was a sculptor of ancient Greece who was the disciple of Polykleitos, and therefore flourished about 388 BCE.
The 19th century classical scholar Friedrich Thiersch supposed that Pliny the Elder, in the words "Argius, Asopodorus," mis-translated his Greek authority, which had Ἀργεῖος Ἀσωπόδωρος, or "Asopodorus the Argive." But "Argius" is found as a Greek proper name in both the forms, Ἄργιος and Ἀργεῖος.
References
- Pliny the Elder, Natural History 34.19
- Friedrich Thiersch, Epochen, p. 275
- Apollonius of Rhodes, Argonautica 2.1.5
- Aristoph. Eccl. 201
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Smith, Philip (1870). "Argius". In Smith, William (ed.). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Vol. 1. p. 280.