Deinomenes (sculptor)
Deinomenes was a sculptor listed by Pliny the Elder as one of the most celebrated brass sculptors and dates him as flourishing in the 95th Olympiad, B. C. 400.[1] Pliny credits him with the creation of two sculptures: the first is of Protesilaus - a figure from the Iliad believed to be the first Greek to die at Troy. The second was of a wrestler named Pythodemus.[2] He was also responsible for two statues located in the Acropolis in the lifetime of Pausanias. The statues are of Io and Callisto.[3]
Tatian mentions him disparagingly in his Oratio ad Graecos, attributing to him a statue of Besantis, queen of the Paeonians, whom Tatian treats as a historical figure, but who was probably mythical.[4][5][6] His name also appears on the base of another statue from the Acropolis, crediting him as the sculptor, but the statue itself is lost.[7][8]
References[edit]
- ^ Pliny the Elder. Natural History Book 34.19.
- ^ Smith, William (1801). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, Volume 1. p. 952.
- ^ Pausanias. Histories Book 1.25.1.
- ^ Whittaker, Molly (1982). Tatian: Oratio ad Graecos and Fragments. Oxford University Press.
- ^ Tatian. Oration to the Greeks: 33.
- ^ Čausidis, Nikos (2012). "The River in the Mythical and Religious Traditions of the Paeonians" (PDF). Folia Archaeologica Balkanica. 2: 278.
- ^ Chandler, Richard. Inscriptiones antiquae XIII. p. 52.
- ^ Böckh, Agustus. Corpus inscriptionum graecarum. p. 466.
Bibliography[edit]
- Böckh, Augustus (1828). Corpus inscriptionum graecarum : auctoritate et impensis Academiae Litterarum Regiae Borussicae. Berolini ex Officina Academica.
- Čausidis, Nikos (2012). "The River in the Mythical and Religious Traditions of the Paeonians" (PDF). Folia Archaeologica Balkanica. 2: 263–282. Retrieved 30 December 2022.
- Chandler, Richard (1774). Inscriptiones antiquae, pleraeque nondum editae, in Asia Minori et Graecia, praesertim Athenis collectae: cum appendice. Oxonii : E Typographeo clarendoniano.
- Pausanias. Jones, W.H.S (ed.). Description of Greece.
- Pliny the Elder. Natural History.
- Smith, William (1801). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, Volume 1. Retrieved 30 December 2022.
- Whittaker, Molly (1982). Tatian: Oratio ad Graecos and Fragments. Oxford University Press.
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