Harry Thurston Peck, Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898)

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Hegesias

（Ἡγησίας).

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1.

A Greek orator, born in Magnesia on Mount Sipylus in the first half of the third century B.C. He was the founder of what was termed the Asiatic style of oratory. See Rhetorica.

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2.

A famous Cyrenaic philosopher who flourished about B.C. 340, and known as Πεισιθάνατος from his arguments in favor of suicide. See Cyrenaici.

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3.

A statuary who is thought to have wrought the figures of the Dioscuri on the Capitol at Rome. He is probably the same as Hegias, supposed by some to be another person.