Glaucos of Chios

According to tradition, Glaukos of Chios (around 700 BC) is considered to be the inventor of the art of soldering . According to Hieronymus , he should learn the art of soldering in the fourth year of the 21st Olympiad , i.e. 693/2 BC. Have invented. Previously, decorations were either riveted or stapled.

Glaukos was a native of Chios and was counted as part of the Sami school. Above all, an iron base for a silver crater is attributed to him, which Alyattes II (reigned 605-561 BC), king of Lydia , later consecrated to the oracle of Delphi . Athenaios saw it during his visit (around 200 AD) in Delphi and describes it as worth seeing and decorated with animals, insects and plants.

literature

• Georg Joachim Göschen, Amalthea or Museum of Art Mythology and Pictorial Antiquity , 1825, p.25

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• Athenaios : Deipnosophistai , 5, 45. [1]
• Herodotus : Histories , 1, 25.
• Jerome : Chronicles , Merton Manuscript .
• Pausanias Periegetes : Traveling in Greece , 10, 16, 1 - 2.
• Plutarch : De defectu oraculorum , 436.

Web links

• Short version of a lecture: Eugen Pfütze: 100 years of welding technology. Beginnings and developments in welding technology ( Memento from March 21, 2009 in the Internet Archive )