Nicodamus of Maenalus
Nicodamus was a sculptor from Maenalus (modern Mainalo) in Arcadia, who made statues of the Olympic victors Androsthenes, Antiochus of Arcadia, and Damoxenidas; one of the goddess Athena, in bronze and carrying her helmet and aegis, dedicated by the Eleans; and one of Hercules, as a youth, killing the Nemean lion with his arrows, dedicated at Olympia by Hippotion of Tarentum. Since Androsthenes conquered in the pancration event in the 90th Olympiad, in 420 BC, the date of Nicodamus may be placed about that time. German archaeologist and art historian Johannes Overbeck placed Nicodamus in this time with certainty in his Ancient manuscript sources on the history of Greek fine arts (Die antiken Schriftquellen zur Geschichte der bildenden Künste bei den Griechen), which he wrote in 1868.
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Nicodamus of Maenalus
- Born
- 500 · Maenalus.
- Occupation
- sculptor
- Known for
- statue of Androsthenes of Maenalus · statue of Antiochus of Lepreum · statue of Damoxenidas of Maenalus · statue of Heracles and Nemean Lion at Olympia · Antiochos statue at Olympia · Damoxenidas statue at Olympia
- Languages
- Ancient Greek
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Nicodamus was a sculptor from Maenalus (modern Mainalo) in Arcadia, who made statues of the Olympic victors Androsthenes, Antiochus of Arcadia, and Damoxenidas; one of the goddess Athena, in bronze and carrying her helmet and aegis, dedicated by the Eleans; and one of Hercules, as a youth, killing the Nemean lion with his arrows, dedicated at Olympia by Hippotion of Tarentum. Since Androsthenes conquered in the pancration event in the 90th Olympiad, in 420 BC, the date of Nicodamus may be placed about that time. German archaeologist and art historian Johannes Overbeck placed Nicodamus in this time with certainty in his Ancient manuscript sources on the history of Greek fine arts (Die antiken Schriftquellen zur Geschichte der bildenden Künste bei den Griechen), which he wrote in 1868.
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The recorded working language is Ancient Greek. Works named in the authority record are statue of Androsthenes of Maenalus, statue of Antiochus of Lepreum, statue of Damoxenidas of Maenalus, statue of Heracles and Nemean Lion at Olympia, Antiochos statue at Olympia and Damoxenidas statue at Olympia.
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- 1.Leake, William Martin. The Topography of Athens: With Some Remarks on Its Antiquities. 1. 532. 1841.
- 2.Sillig, Julius. Dictionary of the Artists of Antiquity: Architects, Carvers, Engravers, Modellers, Painters, Sculptors, Statuaries, and Workers in Bronze, Gold, Ivory, and Silver, with Three Chronological Tables. Black and Armstrong. 84. 1836.
- 3.Pausanias, Description of Greece 5.6.1, 26.5, 6.6.1, 3. g 4, 10.25.4
- 4.Thucydides, 5.49
- 5.Hill, Ida Carleton Thallon. The Date of Damophon of Messene. American Journal of Archaeology. Archaeological Institute of America. 10. 3. 302–329. 1906. 10.2307/496986.
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