Menaichmos of Naupaktos

Menaichmos ( Greek Μέναιχμος , Latin Menaechmus ) was an ancient Greek sculptor from Naupaktos .

Together with Soïdas he created a gold ivory statue of Artemis Laphria for the sanctuary of the goddess in Kalydon . After the Battle of Actium, Augustus moved the inhabitants of Kalydon to the newly founded Nicopolis near Actium, which celebrated his victory . The statue then came to Patras , which took over the Calydonian territory and which was particularly favored by Augustus. The statue of Laphria was also one of his donations to Patras. There Pausanias saw the gold ivory image in the 2nd century AD, which was still venerated on the acropolis of the city in his time . It was said to Pausanias that the sculptors worked soon after Kanachos from Sikyon and Callon from Aegina . This would become an acme by 450 BC at the latest. Since Kanachos at the end of the 6th century, Kallon until about 460 BC. Worked. But the dating of the Menaichmos is controversial.

The question of whether Menaichmos is identical with a bronze sculptor of the same name, of whom Pliny reports that he created a bull calf as a sacrificial animal and wrote a work de toreutice about his handicrafts, must also remain open . In the case of the equation, Menaichmos would be one of the oldest sculptors known by name who - like Polyklet in his canon - would have also commented on their art in writing, should it not be a work in the tradition of archaic "workshop books", which have always been based on metrological Problems and the passing on of workshop-specific solutions and rules.

literature

Walter Hatto Gross : Menaichmos 4th In: The Little Pauly (KlP). Volume 3, Stuttgart 1969, column 1197.
Kenneth Lapatin : Chryselephantine Statuary in the Ancient Mediterranean World. Oxford University Press, Oxford 2001, ISBN 978-0-19-815311-5 , pp. 110-112.

Remarks

^ Pausanias 7:18 , 8-10.
^ Virginia Campbell Goodlett: Collaboration in Greek Sculpture. The Literary and Epigraphical Evidence. University Microfilms, Ann Arbor 1989, p. 107 f.
↑ Pliny, Naturalis historia 34, 80.
↑ For the tradition of the workshop books see Ernst Berger , Brigitte Müller-Huber, Lukas Thommen : The design of the artist. Sculpture canon in ancient and modern times. Antikenmuseum Basel and the Ludwig Collection, Basel 1992, pp. 14–24; Werner Fuchs , Josef Floren : The Greek sculpture I. The geometric and archaic sculpture. (= Handbook of Archeology 9, 6). Beck, Munich 1987, pp. 87-91; Eleanor Guralnik: The Proportions of Kouroi. In: American Journal of Archeology . Vol. 82, 1978, pp. 173-182; Eleanor Guralnik: The Proportions of Korai. In: American Journal of Archeology. Vol. 85, 1982, pp. 269-280.

personal data
SURNAME	Menaichmos
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Greek sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH	6th century BC BC or 5th century BC Chr.
PLACE OF BIRTH	Naupaktos
DATE OF DEATH	5th century BC BC or 4th century BC Chr.

[1] Pausanias 7:18 , 8-10.

[2] Virginia Campbell Goodlett: Collaboration in Greek Sculpture. The Literary and Epigraphical Evidence. University Microfilms, Ann Arbor 1989, p. 107 f.

[3] Pliny, Naturalis historia 34, 80.

[4] For the tradition of the workshop books see Ernst Berger , Brigitte Müller-Huber, Lukas Thommen : The design of the artist. Sculpture canon in ancient and modern times. Antikenmuseum Basel and the Ludwig Collection, Basel 1992, pp. 14–24; Werner Fuchs , Josef Floren : The Greek sculpture I. The geometric and archaic sculpture. (= Handbook of Archeology 9, 6). Beck, Munich 1987, pp. 87-91; Eleanor Guralnik: The Proportions of Kouroi. In: American Journal of Archeology . Vol. 82, 1978, pp. 173-182; Eleanor Guralnik: The Proportions of Korai. In: American Journal of Archeology. Vol. 85, 1982, pp. 269-280.