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Acragas (silversmith)

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graved on them. If the language of Pliny justifies us in inferring that the three artists whom he classes together lived at the same time, that would fix the age of Acragas in the latter part of the fifth century BC, as Mys was a contemporary of
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Acragas (disambiguation)
silversmith
Pliny the Elder
Boethus
Mys
Mentor
Rhodes
Bacchus
Bacchae
Centaurs
Phidias
Pliny the Elder
Naturalis Historia
Mason, Charles Peter
"Acragas (2)"
Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology
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Smith, William
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