Theodorus is also credited with having been the architect of the old Scias at Sparta, and of having advised the use of charcoal beneath the foundation of the temple dedicated to Artemis, at Ephesus, as a remedy against the dampness of the site. Theodorus was a great admirer of his father and of the temple to Hera, which they built together. He attested his appreciation of the latter by writing a book descriptive of it. As for Smilis, who belongs to the mythical period, and whose name when translated stands for “a knife for carving wood,” or “a sculptor’s chisel,” he is also accredited with having been the first to devise the art of modelling in clay. He is to be classed more as a sculptor than an architect, but of an inferior standing to Dædalus. In fact, his only connection with architecture, according to Pliny, seems to have been his association with Rhœcus and Theodorus in the building of the labyrinth at Lemnos. It is possible that even here he was employed more in the line of a sculptor than in lending any professional assistance as an architect. Pausanias mentions a pupil of Theodorus of Samos, who, it would appear, achieved considerable distinction both as an architect and sculptor, but more especially in the latter capacity. His name is given as Gitiadas, and his birthplace as Lacedæmon, where he flourished about 724 B.C., as stated by some authorities, but much later according to others. The architectural work for which he receives credit was the temple of Athena Polionchos at Sparta, which, it is said, was constructed entirely of bronze. It also contained a bronze statue of the goddess of Gitiadas’s own workmanship, and many bas-reliefs representing the labors of Hercules, the exploits of the Tyndarids, Hephæstus releasing his mother from her chains, the Nymphs arming Perseus for the expedition against Medusa, and other mythological subjects, all executed in the same metal. This extensive use of bronze suggested the name “Brazen House,” which was given the temple. It would seem that Gitiadas was possessed of other accomplishments, and served Minerva with equal distinction as a poet, writing his poems all in the Doric dialect. A still stranger _compôte_ of fact and fable, of hypothesis and conjecture, of celestial and terrestrial biography, is to be found in the accounts of the brothers Agamedes and Trophonius, who were the architects of the great temple of Apollo at Delphi, and of the treasury of Hyrieus, king of Hyria in Bœotia.