Lysippos was a Greek sculptor of the fourth century BC. Among the works attributed to him are Eros Stringing the Bow (various copies exist; the best is in the British Museum); Agias (known from a marble copy found and preserved in Delphi); Weary Hercules (originally placed in the Baths of Caracalla, though the surviving marble copy is in the Naples Archeological Museum)and Apoxyomenos or The Scraper (known from a Roman marble copy in the Vatican Museums). He was born at Sikyon around 390 BC. A worker in bronze in his youth, he taught himself the art of sculpture, later becoming head of the school of Argos and Sikyon. Lysippos was also the personal sculptor of Alexander the Great. He produced, according to Pliny the Elder, more than 1500 works, all of them in bronze.