Smilis

Smilis

(Σμῖλις). The son of Euclides, of Aegina, a sculptor of the legendary period in Greece, whose name appears to be derived from σμίλη, a knife for carving wood, and afterwards a sculptor's chisel. Smilis is the legendary head of the Aeginetan School of sculpture, just as Daedalus is the legendary head of the Attic and Cretan Schools (Pausan. vii. 4, 4).

Smilis Smilis, an Aeginetan sculptor

• son of Euclides, contemporary of Daedalus: Paus. 7.4.4
• makes image of Hera in Samos: Paus. 7.4.4, 7, and images of Seasons at Olympia: Paus. 5.17.1