. thefoot of Mount Helicon, in Boeotia, which wasconsidered sacred to the Muses (who were hencecalled Aganippides),&n& which was believed tohave the power of inspiring those who drank ofit. The fountain of Hippocrene has the epithetAganippis (Ov. Fast. v. 7), from its being sacredto the Muses, like that of Aganippe. Agapenor (Aya-whvoip), son of Ancaeus kingof the Arcadians, received 60 ships from Aga-memnon, in which he led his Arcadians to Troy(II. ii. 609). On his return from Troy he wascast by a storm on the coast of Cyprus, wher
. thefoot of Mount Helicon, in Boeotia, which wasconsidered sacred to the Muses (who were hencecalled Aganippides),&n& which was believed tohave the power of inspiring those who drank ofit. The fountain of Hippocrene has the epithetAganippis (Ov. Fast. v. 7), from its being sacredto the Muses, like that of Aganippe. Agapenor (Aya-whvoip), son of Ancaeus kingof the Arcadians, received 60 ships from Aga-memnon, in which he led his Arcadians to Troy(II. ii. 609). On his return from Troy he wascast by a storm on the coast of Cyprus, wherehe founded the town of Paphos, and in it thefamous temple of Aphrodite (Paus. viii. 5, 2). Agarista (Ayaptcnri). 1. Daughter of CH-sthenes, tyrant of Sicyon, wife of Megacles, andmother of Clisthenes, the Athenian statesman,and Hippocrates.—2. Daughter of the above-mentioned Hippocrates, grand-daughter of , wife of Xanthippus, and mother of Pericles. Agasias (Ayairias), son of Dositheus, a sculp-tor of Ephesus (about 100), sculptured the. The so-called Borghese Gladiator, by Agasias. statue known by the name of the BorgheseGladiator, which is still preserved in the gallery AGATHINUS of the Louvre, and is a marvel of anatomicalstudy. This statue, as well as the Apollo Bel-videre, was discovered among the ruins of apalace of the Roman emperors on the site of theancient Antium (Capo dAnzo). From theattitude of the figure it is clear that the statuerepresents, not a gladiator, but a warrior con-tending with a mounted combatant. In stylethis sculptor, like Menephilus and Dositheus,seems to follow the Greek traditions handeddown from Lysippus to the so-called Hellenisticschool, though in date he is contemporary withthe Graeco-Roman schools (see Diet. Ant. ). Agasieles, Agesicles, or Hegesicles (Aya<ri-K\yjs, Ayr\<riK\ris, HyijcriKAf/s), king of Sparta,succeeded his father Archidamus I., about or 590. Agasthenes (Ayatx8cVtjs), son of Augeias andf
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