Clearchus of Rhegium
Clearchus or Clearch (Klearkhos) was a sculptor in bronze in Rhegium (modern Reggio Calabria) in Magna Graecia. He is notable as the teacher of the celebrated Pythagoras, who flourished at the time of Myron and Polykleitos. Clearchus was the pupil of the Corinthian Eucheirus (although was often said to have been apprenticed to the mythical Daedalus), and belongs probably to the 72nd and following Olympiads.
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Clearchus of Rhegium
- Born
- 550
- Died
- 500
- Occupation
- sculptor
- Teachers
- Eucheirus
- Languages
- Ancient Greek
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Clearchus or Clearch (Klearkhos) was a sculptor in bronze in Rhegium (modern Reggio Calabria) in Magna Graecia. He is notable as the teacher of the celebrated Pythagoras, who flourished at the time of Myron and Polykleitos. Clearchus was the pupil of the Corinthian Eucheirus (although was often said to have been apprenticed to the mythical Daedalus), and belongs probably to the 72nd and following Olympiads.
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His only recorded work is a bronze of Zeus that stood in Sparta, that was not cast, but made from plates of metal hammered into the desired form and then riveted together. The whole pedigree of the school to which he is to be ascribed is given by Pausanias.
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Clearchus of Rhegium died.
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Clearchus of Rhegium born.
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- 1.Urlichs, Ludwig. Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Little, Brown and Company. 1. 781. 1867.
- 2.Gardner, Ernest Arthur. A Handbook of Greek Sculpture. Macmillan Publishers. 102. 1896.
- 3.Pausanias, Description of Greece vi. 4. § 2
- 4.Comp. Christian Gottlob Heyne, Opuscula academica v. p. 371
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Formation and teaching. He trained under Eucheirus. Each of those relationships is stated by the authority record rather than inferred from style.
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