Eutelidas (sculptor)

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Eutelidas of Argos was a Greek sculptor who worked in the late 6th and early 5th centuries BC. Was active.

Together with Chrysothemis he created two victorious statues , which were placed in the Zeus sanctuary Olympia . They showed the Olympians Damaretus and his son Theopompos from Heraia . Pausanias reports that at the 65th Olympic Games (520 BC) Damaretos was the first to win the newly established Hoplitodromos discipline, and that his son Theopompos was the winner in the Pentathlon .

In an epigram at the base of the statues, the two sculptors stated that they had adopted their skills from older masters. It is assumed that they are therefore artists from the environment of the Argive school of Hagelaides .

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  1. Pausanias 6:10 , 4.
  2. ^ Pausanias 6:10 , 5.
  3. ^ Rainer Vollkommer: Chrysothemis. In: Rainer Vollkommer (Hrsg.): Künstlerlexikon der Antike. Volume 1: A-K. Saur, Munich / Leipzig 2001, p. 141.