Anaxagoras (Greek, Ancient (to 1453);: Ἀναξαγόρας) of Aegina was a sculptor who lived around 480 BCE, and created the statue of Zeus in bronze set up at Olympia by the states which had united in repelling the invasion of Xerxes I of Persia.[1] He is supposed to be the same person as the sculptor mentioned in an epigram by Anacreon,[2] but not the same as the writer on scene-painting mentioned by Vitruvius.