DAMOPHON, a Greek sculptor of Messene, who executed many statues for the people of Messene, Megalopolis, Aegium, and other cities of Peloponnesus. Considerable fragments, includ ing three colossal heads from a group by him representing Demeter, Persephone, Artemis, and the giant Anytus, have been found on the site of Lycosura in Arcadia, where there was a temple of the goddess called "The Mistress." They are preserved in part in the museum at Athens and partly on the spot. Hence there arose controversy as to the date of the artist, who was assigned to various periods, from the 4th century B.C. to the 2nd A.D. G. Dickins, however, by the help of inscriptions Droved the date to be the end century B.C.
See G. Dickins, Annual of the British School at Athens (xii. and xiii.) .