Smilis (), was a legendary ancient Greek sculptor, the contemporary of Daedalus, whose nameSmilis signifies "chisel", Andrew Stewart observes in One Hundred Greek Sculptors, Their Careers and Extant Works: "Contemporaries of Daidalos and the Daidalidai". was associated with at the Heraion of Samos.Pausanias. Description of Greece, 7.4.4; Clement of Alexandria. Protrepticus,4.47.2. Smilis was born on the island of AeginaΕπίτομο Γεωγραφικό Λεξικό της Ελλάδος (Geographical Dictionary of Greece), Μιχαήλ Σταματελάτος, Φωτεινή Βάμβα-Σταματελάτου, εκδ. Ερμής, ΑΘήνα 2001 and his father was named Euclides.Harry Thurston Peck, Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898), Smilis He was the legendary head of the Aeginetan School of sculpture.
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External links Andrew Stewart, One Hundred Greek Sculptors: Their Careers and Extant Works "The Sculptors: The Archaic Period"