BATHYCLES, of Magnesia in Lydia, the celebrated sculptor of the throne or shrine of the Amyclaeian Apollo, so minutely described by Pausanias (Laconia). This emi-
nent artist gave a stimulus to the genius of Grecian sculpture. He came into Greece about 600 years B.C., at the time when the invasion of the Scythians and of the kings of Lydia harassed the Ionian states, and fixed his abode at Sparta.
BATHYLLUS of Alexandria, a freedman of Maccenas, was a celebrated pantomimic dancer in the reign of Augustus. See BALLET.