Agesander, a Rhodian sculptor, whose title to fame is that he is mentioned by Pliny (Nat. Hist, xxxvi. 37) as author (with Polydorus and Athenodorus ) of the group of the Laocoon. Inscriptions recently found at Lindus in Rhodes date Agesander and Athenodorus to the period 42-21 B.C. The date of the Laocoon seems thus finally settled, after long controversy. It represents the culmination of a sentimental or pathetic tendency in art, which is prominent in the somewhat earlier sculpture of Pergamum.