Pheidias
ΦΙΔΙΑΣ ΚΑΙ ΑΜΜΟΝΙΟΣ ΑΜΦΟΤΕΡΟΙ ΦΙΔΙΟΥ ΕΠΟΙΟΥΝ
2. A son of the great Pheidias, made, with his brother Ammonius, the colossal statue of a sitting ape, of a sort of basalt, which is at Rome, in the Capitoline Museum. On the base is the inscription
ΦΙΔΙΑΣ ΚΑΙ ΑΜΜΟΝΙΟΣ ΑΜΦΟΤΕΡΟΙ ΦΙΔΙΟΥ ΕΠΟΙΟΥΝ.
(Winckelmann, Werke, vol. v. pp. 275, foil. vol. vii. p. 248.)
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.