Aetion

Not to be confused with aition.

For the painter sometimes called by the same name, see Echion (painter).

Aetion /eɪˈiːʃən/ (Ancient Greek: Αετίων) was an ancient Greek sculptor of Amphipolis,^[1] mentioned by Callimachus^[2] and Theocritus,^[3] from whom we learn that at the request of Nicias, a famous physician of Miletus, he executed a statue of Asclepius in cedar wood. He flourished about the middle of the 3rd century BC. There was an engraver of the same name; but when he lived is not known.^[4]