Dionysius
2. A sculptor, who made the statue of Hera which Octavian afterwards placed in the portico of Octavia. (Plin. Nat. 36.5, s. 4.10.) Junius takes this artist to be the same as the former, but Sillig argues, that in the time of the elder Dionysius the art of sculpturing marble was not brought to sufficient perfection to allow us to ascribe one of its masterpieces to him.
From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.