a distinguished sculptor of the later Attic school, was a native of Paros, where he was born during the first half of the fourth century B.C. Pliny places him with Polycleitus, Praxiteles, Myron, Pythagoras, and Perelius, 420 B.C., but this cannot possibly be accurate. (See Sillig, Cat. Art.) He was probably somewhat older than Praxiteles, with whom he left the fruits of his handiwork on the Mausoleum at Halicarnassus. The period during which he flourished must have been from 395 B.C. to 350 B.C. Nothing is known with certainty regarding the life of the artist, except what one can gather from the fragmentary remains of his works still extant. He was not only a sculptor, he was likewise an architect and statuary. His chief performances are the Niobe group, the Budrum marbles, and various statues chiefly of the gods of Greece. The architectural works of Scopas are very justly celebrated. He built the temple of Athena Alea, at Tegea, in Arcadia, which was accounted the most magnificent building in the Peloponnesus. Scopas likewise decorated the building with the products of his chisel, of which the most celebrated designs were the chase of the Calydonian boar and the battle of Telephus with Achilles. (Pausanias, viii. 45.) This artist was likewise supposed to be the architect of the temple of Artemis, but the critical investigations of Sillig have thrown much doubt on this hypothesis. There is more certainty as to the part taken by Scopas in the decoration of the famed sepulchre of the king of Caria at Halicarnassus, or the modern Budrum. The eastern front seems to have been executed by this artist, and the other portions by different workmen. (See MAUSOLEUM.) He executed statues from the mythology of Aphrodite, of Dionysius, of Apollo, and of Artemis. But the most esteemed work ascribed to Scopas is the celebrated group of the destruction of the sons and daughters of Niobe. It is a disputed point whether we owe this glorious production of Greek art to the genius of Scopas or of Praxiteles. Winckelmann ascribed it to Scopas, and perhaps the most celebrated description of it is by the late German philosopher, Schelling. Besides the statues to other divinities, Scopas is said to have executed a famous group of Achilles conducted to the island of Leuce by the divinities of the sea. Pliny, on whose authority this work is cited, esteemed it the best of all the productions of Scopas. Very few facts can be ascertained entirely beyond dispute regarding this artist's labours.