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'''Scopas''' or '''Skopas''' ([[Ancient{{lang-grc-gre|Σκόπας}}; Greekborn language|Ancientin Greek[[Paros]]:, Σκόπας) (cfl. 3954th BCcentury – 350 BCBCE) was an [[Ancient Greece|Ancientancient Greek sculptor]] and architect,<ref>''The New Century Classical Handbook''; Catherine Avery, editor; Appleton-Century-Crofts, New York, 1962, p. 990: "'''Scopas'''...Greek sculptor and architect,; born in the island of Paros; fl. 4th century B.C."</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Scopas | title=Scopas &#124; Greek sculptor &#124; Britannica }}</ref> most famous for his [[Meleager of Skopas|statue of Meleager]], the copper statue of [[Aphrodite]], and the head of goddess [[Hygieia]], daughter of [[Asclepius]].

==Career as sculptor and architect==

Works by Scopas are preserved in the [[British Museum]] (reliefs) in London; fragments from the temple of Athena Alea at Tegea in the [[National Archaeological Museum of Athens]]; the celebrated [[Ludovisi Ares]] in the [[Palazzo Altemps]], Rome; a statue of [[Pothos (mythology)|Pothos]] restored as [[Apollo Citharoedus]] in the [[Capitoline Museum]], Rome; and his statue of Meleager, unmentioned in ancient literature but surviving in numerous replicas, perhaps best represented by a torso in the [[Fogg Art Museum]], [[Cambridge, Massachusetts]].

File:Meleager Pio-Clementino Inv490.jpg|A Roman 1st century AD marble ''[[Meleager of Skopas|Meleager]]'' with [[chlamys]], a free improvisation on Scopas's model, from the Fusconi-Pighini collection ([[Museo Pio-Clementino]], Rome)