The Meleager of Skopas is a lost bronze sculpture of the Greek hero Meleager – host of the Calydonian boar hunt – that is associated in modern times with the fourth century BC architect and sculptor Skopas of Paros.

Scopas (Ancient Greek: Σκόπας; born in Paros, fl. 4th century BCE) was an ancient Greek sculptor and architect, [1][2] most famous for his statue of Meleager, the copper statue of Aphrodite, and the head of goddess Hygieia, daughter of Asclepius.

This is the image of the courageous, but tragic, hunter, Meleager, who killed the Calydonian Boar. Meleager's uncles claimed the hide of the boar, after it was killed, although it had already been promised to the huntress Atalanta.

The attribution of the Meleager statuary type to Skopas has been based largely on his role as the architect of the mid-fourth century B.C. temple of Athena Alea at Tegea in Greece, the east pediment of which featured the earliest sculpted representation of Meleager hunting the boar. 11 Skopas’s involvement in the temple’s architectural ...

This head is from a Roman copy of a full-length statue by the famed fourth-century-B.C. Greek sculptor Skopas. It showed the mythological hero Meleager with a hunting dog and the head of the Kalydonian boar.

This is a section from a damaged cast of the Vatican Meleager, a Roman marble copy of a statue attributed to the fourth century sculptor Skopas of Paros.

The Meleager of Skopas is a lost bronze sculpture of the Greek hero Meleager – host of the Calydonian boar hunt – that is associated in modern times with the fourth century BC architect and sculptor Skopas of Paros.

This statue is an impressive, early copy of an original attributed to the sculptor Skopas that belongs to the decade before the middle of the fourth century B.C. The original was probably made in hollow-cast bronze. Context: Roman copy of a fourth-century B.C. Greek original attributed to Skopas.

The famous statue of Meleager, ill-fated hunter of Greek mythology, in the clas- sical room of the Fogg Museum of Art at Harvard is a masterful copy made perhaps about A.D. 75 of a statue created by Skopas three hundred years earlier (Fig. 1).2 A noticeably inferior version of the lost bronze statue, another head of Meleager in marble, is ...

Oct 5, 2024 · Scopas or Skopas ( Ancient Greek: Σκόπας) (c. 395 BC – 350 BC) was an Ancient Greek sculptor and architect most famous for his statue of Meleager, the copper statue of "Aphrodite" and the head of goddess Hygieia, daughter of Asclepius.