Boethus was a Greek sculptor of the Hellenistic age, a native of Chalcedon. His date cannot be accurately fixed, but was probably the 2nd century BC. He was noted for his representations of children, in dealing with whom earlier Greek art had not been very successful; and especially for a group representing a boy struggling with a goose, of which several copies survive in museums. Boethus was a bronze caster and silversmith. The only original signed work of Boethus is a bronze herm from a shipwreck off the coast of Tunisia, Mahdia.

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