The Encyclopedia Americana (1920)/Boëthus |←Boëthius, Anicius
Manlius Severinus||The Encyclopedia Americana |Bœttcher, Jean
Frederck→| |Edition of 1920. See also Boethus on Wikipedia, and
the disclaimer.| BOËTHUS, Greek sculptor: b. Chalcedon early in
the 2d century B.C. He is celebrated for his statues of
children. ‘The Boy With the Goose’ was his most famous work. A
girl playing with dice and a boy extracting a thorn were
subjects of other masterpieces by him. According to Pliny he
excelled in working in silver. Consult Journal of Hellenic
Studies (Vol. VI, p. 7) and Jahrbuch d. d. Inst. (1904, p. 212).