Acestor
(
Ἀκέστωρ), a sculptor mentioned by Pausanias (
6.17.2) as having executed a statue of Alexibius, a native of Heraea in Arcadia, who had gained a victory in the pentathlon at the Olympic games.
He was born at Cnossus, or at any rate exercised his profession there for some tine. (
Paus. 10.15.4.)
He had a son named Amphion, who was also a sculptor, and had studied under Ptolichus of Corcyra (
Paus. 6.3.2); so that Acestor must have been a contemporary of the latter, who flourished about Ol. 82. (B. C. 452.)
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