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Theopropus

Θεόπροπος

(Θεόπροπος), a statuary of Aegina, who made a bronze bull, which was dedicated by the Corcyreans at Delphi, as a tithe of their profits from a shoal of fish, which they discovered by means of a bull, according to the story related by Pausanias (10.9.2. s. 3, 4). The reading of the name is doubtful: the common text has Θεοπρόπου, but other MSS. give Θεοπρεποῦς and Θεοπόμπου, the latter of which readings is approved by Schubart and Walz, and adopted by Thiersch. (Epochen, p. 197.)

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.