Dameas from Croton
Dameas ( ancient Greek Δαμέας ) was a Greek sculptor from the Great Greek city of Croton , who worked in the second half of the 6th century BC. Was active.
Dameas created a bronze winner statue of the wrestler Milon on the occasion of his victory at the 62nd Olympic Games in 532 BC. Chr. Pausanias , who found the statue in place during his visit to Olympia in the 2nd century AD, tells of a legend according to which Milon carried the statue to the Altis himself .
The fragment of a limestone statue base found in Olympia has been variously associated with the statue of Dameas. Because of the extensive destruction of the inscription, however, it cannot be clearly assigned to him.
literature
- Carl Robert : Dameas 4. In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume IV, 2, Stuttgart 1901, Sp. 2053 ( digitized version ).
- Luigi Guerrini: Dameas 1 . In: Ranuccio Bianchi Bandinelli (editor): Enciclopedia dell'Arte Antica, Classica e Orientale , Volume 2. Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, Rome 1952.
- Doris Vollkommer-Glökler: Dameas (I). In: Rainer Vollkommer (editor): Künstlerlexikon der Antike . Volume 2: L-Z. Addendum A – K. Saur, Munich / Leipzig 2004, ISBN 3-598-11414-1 , p. 156.
Remarks
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Dameas from Croton |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Δαμέας (ancient Greek) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Greek sculptor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 6th century BC Chr. |
| DATE OF DEATH | 6th century BC BC or 5th century BC Chr. |