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Silanion

400 BC - 360 BC

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Silanion (Ancient Greek: Σιλανίων, gen. Σιλανίωνος) was the best-known of the Greek portrait-sculptors working during the fourth century BC. Pliny gives his floruit as the 113th Olympiad, that is, around 328–325 BCE (Natural History, 34.51), and records he had no famous teacher. His idealized portrait head of Plato was commissioned by Mithridates of Persia for the Academy of Athens, c. 370 BC. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Silanion has received more than 59,863 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Silanion is the 77th most popular sculptor (up from 153rd in 2019), the 387th most popular biography from Greece (up from 589th in 2019) and the 13th most popular Greek Sculptor.

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  • 16

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 10.15

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  • 1.02

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Among SCULPTORS

Among sculptors, Silanion ranks 77 out of 258. Before him are David d'Angers, Cephisodotus the Elder, Giorgio da Sebenico, Jean Goujon, Giacomo Manzù, and Johann Gottfried Schadow. After him are Antoine Pevsner, Nanni di Banco, Anna Mahler, François Duquesnoy, Mino da Fiesole, and Bonanno Pisano.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 400 BC, Silanion ranks 43. Before him are Nausiphanes, Philip IV of Macedon, Antipater II of Macedon, Sosthenes of Macedon, Diodorus Cronus, and Cynane. After him are Aeacides of Epirus, Aristyllus, King Xian of Zhou, Erinna, Gan De, and Polykleitos the Younger. Among people deceased in 360 BC, Silanion ranks 10. Before him are Agnodice, Lais of Corinth, Dinocrates, Campaspe, Aeschines of Sphettus, and Artabazos II. After him are Polykleitos the Younger, Lais of Hyccara, Timotheus of Miletus, Quintus Hortensius, Bryaxis, and Antiphilus.

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In Greece

Among people born in Greece, Silanion ranks 387 out of 1,024. Before him are Theophylact of Ohrid (1055), Perictione (-500), Cebes (-500), Princess Katherine of Greece and Denmark (1913), Archidamus III (-350), and Eupalinos (-600). After him are Miltiades the Elder (-600), Theopompus of Sparta (-800), Isaeus (-420), Aristyllus (-400), Hierocles of Alexandria (410), and Ion of Chios (-490).

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Among SCULPTORS In Greece

Among sculptors born in Greece, Silanion ranks 13. Before him are Leochares (-400), Alcamenes (-500), Chares of Lindos (-400), Ageladas (-600), Antenor (-590), and Paeonius (-500). After him are Polykleitos the Younger (-400), Kresilas (-480), Agoracritus (-500), Cephisodotus the Younger (-400), and Damophon (null).

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