Nicodamus (sculptor)

Nicodamus (Ancient Greek: Νικόδαμος) 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,[1] dedicated by the Eleans;[2] and one of Hercules, as a youth, killing the Nemean lion with his arrows, dedicated at Olympia by Hippotion of Tarentum.[3]

Since Androsthenes conquered in the pancration event in the 90th Olympiad, in 420 BCE,[4] 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.[5]

Notes

1. Leake, William Martin (1841). The Topography of Athens: With Some Remarks on Its Antiquities. 1. p. 532. Retrieved 2016-01-25.
2. Sillig, Julius (1836). Barker, Edmund Henry (ed.). 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. Translated by Williams, Henry W. Black and Armstrong. pp. 84. Retrieved 2016-01-25.
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 (1906). "The Date of Damophon of Messene". American Journal of Archaeology. Archaeological Institute of America. 10 (3): 302–329. doi:10.2307/496986. JSTOR 496986.

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Smith, Philip (1870). "Antiochus". In Smith, William (ed.). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. 1. p. 192.