Eutychides

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Marble Roman copy of Eutychides' Tyche of Antioch, Galleria dei Candelabri, Vatican Museums; original dates back to the 3rd century BC.

Eutychides Template:IPAc-en (Template:Langx, ) of Sicyon in Corinthia, Greek sculptor of the early part of the 3rd century BC, was a pupil of Lysippus. His most noted work was a statue of the Tyche of Antioch, a goddess who embodied the idea of the then newly founded city of Antioch. The Tyche was seated on a rock, crowned with towers, and having the river Orontes at her feet. There is a small copy of the statue in the Vatican. It was imitated by a number of Asiatic cities; and indeed most statues since created that commemorate cities borrow something from the work of Eutychides.Template:Sfn

At the invitation of king Areus, Eutychides spent some time in Sparta, where he made a statue of the Eurotas river, and perhaps another of a seated Herakles, in the 280s or 270s.

List of known works

• Tyche of Antioch
• Allegory of the Eurotas river, in Sparta
• Allegory of the Nile
• Allegory of the Orontes river
• Herakles seated and reclining on his mace, in Sparta

File:Small bronze statuette of the Tyche of Antioch, Roman copy of a 4th century BC bronze by Eutychides of Sicyon in Corinthia, from ancient Antaradus (modern-day Tartus in Syria), Louvre Museum, Paris (34749782344).jpg

Bronze copy from Tartus of the Tyche of Antioch, 1st or 2nd century AD, Louvre Museum

References

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Bibliography

• Bernard Legras & Jacqueline Christien, Dialogues d'histoire ancienne Supplément N° 11, Sparte hellénistique, IVe-IIIe siècles avant notre ère, Presses universitaires de Franche-Comté, 2014. Template:ISBN
• Daniel Ogden, The Legend of Seleucus, Kingship, Narrative and Mythmaking in the Ancient Greek World, Cambridge University Press, 2017. Template:ISBN

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