Eutychides
Sign in to savethumb|200px|Marble Roman copy of Eutychides' Tyche of [[Antioch, Galleria dei Candelabri, Vatican Museums; original dates back to the 3rd century BC.]] Eutychides (, ) of Sicyon in Corinthia, Greek sculptor of the early part of the 3rd century BC, was a pupil of Lysippus. His most noted work was a statue of the Tyche of Antioch, a goddess who embodied the idea of the then newly founded city of Antioch. The Tyche was seated on a rock, crowned with towers, and having the river Orontes at her feet. There is a small copy of the statue in the Vatican. It was imitated by a number of Asiatic cities;
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- male
- Place of birth
- Sicyon
- Occupation
- sculptor
- Languages spoken
- Ancient Greek
- Student of
- Lysippos
- Movement
- Hellenistic art
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- Eutychides
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- 0400-01-01
- date of death
- 0300-01-01
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- classical antiquity
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- Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology
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- Sicyon
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thumb|200px|Marble Roman copy of Eutychides' Tyche of [[Antioch, Galleria dei Candelabri, Vatican Museums; original dates back to the 3rd century BC.]] Eutychides (, ) of Sicyon in Corinthia, Greek sculptor of the early part of the 3rd century BC, was a pupil of Lysippus. His most noted work was a statue of the Tyche of Antioch, a goddess who embodied the idea of the then newly founded city of Antioch. The Tyche was seated on a rock, crowned with towers, and having the river Orontes at her feet. There is a small copy of the statue in the Vatican. It was imitated by a number of Asiatic cities; and indeed most statues since created that commemorate cities borrow something from the work of Eutychides.
At the invitation of king Areus, Eutychides spent some time in Sparta, where he made a statue of the Eurotas river, and perhaps another of a seated Herakles, in the 280s or 270s.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Eutychides” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.