Silanion 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, and records he had no famo
Seuthes III
…Bronze Head of Seuthes III from his tomb, sculpted by Silanion or one of his circle of sculptors Seuthes III (Ancient Greek: Σεύθης, Seuthēs) was a Thracian king of Odrysia, a part of Thrace, during the late 4th…
Tragic mask in bronze, attributed to Silanion. Museum of Piraeus, Athens, Greece.
Plato, Roman copy of Silanion's work (Glyptothek, Munich)