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 empe-
ror 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 Clau-
dius had a pleasure house. Father Kircher, Cupert,
Spanheim, and several other learned antiquaries, have
given a description and explication of this work.