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Phileas

Φιλέας

(Φιλέας), an Argive sculptor, of unknown date, whose name is found, with that of his son Zeuxippus, in an inscription on a statuebase found at Hermione, in Argolis, ΦΙΛΕΑΣΚΑΙΖΕΥΞΙΠΠΟΣΦΙΛΕΛΕΠΟΙΗΣΑΝ,

i. e. Φιλέας καὶ Ζεύξιππος Φιλέα ἐποίησαν. (Böckh, Corp. Inscr. vol. i. p. 603, No. 1229; Welcker, Kunstblatt, 1827, p. 330; R. Rochette, Lettre à M. Schorn, p. 380.)

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.