Aristocles (son of Cleoitas)

Aristocles ( Greek Ἀριστοκλῆς ) was a Greek sculptor who worked in the second half of the 5th century BC. Was active.

Aristocles was the son of Cleoitas and possibly the grandson of Aristocles from Sicyon . Pausanias writes that Aristocles had created a group of sculptures for installation in Olympia on behalf of a Gnathis from Thessaly . It showed Zeus and Ganymede . It is unclear whether he was also the artist who carried out the restoration work on the relief at the base of the Athena Parthenos created by Phidias on the Acropolis of Athens .

literature

Günther Bröker : Aristocles (V). In: Rainer Vollkommer (editor): Künstlerlexikon der Antike . Over 3800 artists from three millennia. Nikol, Hamburg 2007, ISBN 978-3-937872-53-7 , p. 87.

personal data
SURNAME	Aristocles
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Ἀριστοκλῆς
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	ancient Greek sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH	5th century BC Chr.
DATE OF DEATH	5th century BC BC or 4th century BC Chr.