Hegias of Athens

Hegias or Hegesias was a famous sculptor from Athens of the so-called Severe Style a generation before Phidias. No work may be safely attributed to him, although Pliny mentions a Pyrrhus, which is supported by Pallas Athena. No less important is the fact that he had been a teacher of Phidias in sculpture.

Pausanias ( 8.42.4 and 8:42:10 ) Hegias mentioned as contemporaries of Onatas and Ageladas from Argos. Lucian of Samosata Hegias mentioned in connection with the strengstiligen sculptors Kritios and Nesiotes that are known by the tyrannicide. The style he described as stiff and rough, but sharp in outline. Quintilian says of Hegesias and Kallon that their works are rough and have in common with the Etruscan style. Pliny the Elder in his Naturalis historia (XXXIV 8:19 ​​) Hegias counts among the rival of Phidias.