Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology/Menecrates (sculptor)

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MENE'CRATES, a sculptor, of whom we only know, what shows him, however, to have been a very eminent artist, that he was the teacher of Apollonius and Tauriscus, the sculptors of the celebrated group of the Farnese Bull. (Plin. H. N. xxxvi. 5. s. 4. § 10.) [P. S.]