Metagenes (architect)

Metagenes with the nickname ( Greek Μεταγένης ο Ξυπέτιος ) was an ancient Greek - Attic architect in the second half of the 5th century BC. Chr.

Metagenes came from the demos Xypete . Plutarch reports in his biography of Pericles that he had commissioned Metagenes to continue work on the Demeter sanctuary of Eleusis . He thus continued the plan of Iktinos , which had previously been carried out by the architect Koroibos . Metagenes continued construction on the Telesterion . He had the diazoma built and the upper pillars erected. Xenocles finished the work .

literature

Ernst Fabricius : Metagenes 6 . In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume XV, 2, Stuttgart 1932, column 1320.
Carl Weickert : Metagenes II . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 24 : Mandere – Möhl . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1930, p. 437 .
Rainer Vollkommer : Metagenes (II). In: Derselbe (Hrsg.): Künstlerlexikon der Antike . Over 3800 artists from three millennia. Nikol, Hamburg 2007, ISBN 978-3-937872-53-7 , p. 515.

Individual evidence

^ Johann Jacob Reiske : Plutarchi Chaeronensis Quae supersunt, omnia, graece et latine. Gotth. Theoph. Georg, Leipzig 1774, p. 619 , note 94 (Greek, Latin, books.google.de ).

personal data
SURNAME	Metagenes
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Μεταγένες (Greek)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	ancient Greco-Attic architect
DATE OF BIRTH	5th century BC Chr.
DATE OF DEATH	5th century BC BC or 4th century BC Chr.

[1] Johann Jacob Reiske : Plutarchi Chaeronensis Quae supersunt, omnia, graece et latine. Gotth. Theoph. Georg, Leipzig 1774, p. 619 , note 94 (Greek, Latin, books.google.de ).