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Λύσων

(Λύσων), a statuary, who is mentioned by Pliny among those who made " athletas, et armatos, et venatores, sacrificantesque" (H. N. 34.8. s. 19.34). His statue of the Athenian people in the senate-house of the Five Hundred is mentioned by Pausanias (1.3.4).

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.