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Endoios

en-DOY-os

Attested elsewhere in ancient sources

An Athenian sculptor of the sixth century BC, known almost entirely from signatures and from Pausanias.

Pausanias saw a seated Athena by him on the Acropolis with an inscription saying Kallias dedicated it and Endoios made it, and attributes to him an ivory Athena Alea at Tegea that the Romans later carried off.

Acenes finds the signature cut into a shrine stone, Ἔνδοιος με ἐποίει, Endoios made me, and cannot place the name. That form of signature is genuine and common on archaic work. What survives of most such men is exactly this: the verb, the name, and nothing else.

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Acenes of Sparta: The Dragon Slayer

A dragon is the reason the 300 died. Leonidas used the magic of the gods to bind Kalaxes beneath Taygetus, and the price was his life and his men's. Sixty-two years later a seven-year-old of the agoge falls into the dragon's crypt and inherits the unpaid balance.

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