Rhoikos (artist)

Rhoikos ( Greek  Ῥοῖκος ), the son of Phileus, Philaios or Phileas, was an architect and artist from Samos . He was probably at the end of the 7th century BC. And was after Diogenes Laertios the father of the architects Theodoros and Telekles , according to Herodotus Telekles was the father of Theodoros.

Rhoikos and Theodoros are said to have revolutionized the technique of melting bronze and were the first to cast bronze statues. In the temple of Artemis in Ephesus there is said to have been a statue of Nyx from the hand of Rhoikos. Together with Smilis and Theodoros he is referred to as the builder of the labyrinth of Limnos , which was supported by 150 columns.

Herodotus referred to Rhoikos as the first master builder of Heraion of Samos . Today, however, it is believed that Rhoikos built the second temple between about 580 and 560 BC. Built. He may have previously visited the Egyptian Naukratis and was influenced by the step altar of the local Aphrodite shrine. In contrast, the Temple of Apollo at Naukratis, built around 550 BC. BC, Sami influence, so that some researchers assume that Rhoikos was its architect. An Eastern Greek eye- cup bearing a dedicatory inscription from a Rhoikos to Aphrodite was found in Naukratis and is taken as a further indication of this assumption.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Diogenes Laertios , On the Lives and Teachings of Famous Philosophers , 8, 102.
2. ↑ Pliny the Elder , Naturalis historia , 35, 43.
3. ^ Pausanias , Journeys in Greece , 8, 14, 8; 9, 41, 1.
4. ^ Pausanias, Travels in Greece , 10, 38, 6.
5. ↑ Pliny the Elder, Naturalis historia , 36, 19.
6. ↑ Herodotus, Historien , 3, 60.
7. ↑ Eastern Greek eye shells, not to be confused with the later Attic black-figure eye shells, are related to Eastern Greek bird shells .
8. ^ Ernest A. Gardner , Naukratis , Part II (1888), §778; Plate vii, 1.