ARCHELAUS, the son of Apollonius, one of the greatest sculptors of antiquity, was a native of Ionia, and is thought to have lived in the time of the emperor Claudius. He executed, in marble, the apotheosis of Homer. This masterpiece in sculpture was found in 1568, in a place named Fratocchia, belonging to the princes of Colonna, where, it is said, the emperor Claudius had a pleasure-house. Father Kirelier, Cupest, Spanheim, and several other learned antiquaries, have given a description and explication of this work.