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Phoenix

Φοῖνιξ

(Φοῖνιξ), a statuary, of unknown country, was the pupil of Lysippus, and therefore tlourished about Ol. 120, B. C. 300. He made a celebrated statue of the Olympic victor boxing, Epitherses. (Plin. Nat. 34.8. s. 19.20; Paus. 6.15.3.)

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.