Pyrilampes
Also known as: the Messenian Pyrilampes · Family: Ephesus · Role: runner · First appears: Book 6 · Chapter 3
In Book 6, Chapter 3, Pyrilampes is identified as a sculptor from Messene near Ithome, distinct from a Sicyonian of the same name. By Chapter 15, he is named as the maker of Xenon’s statue; in Chapter 16, he is named as the sculptor of Asamon’s statue.
Relationship record
Book 6 · Chapter 3
- with Olympus (sculptor from Messene) (The source distinguishes this Messene sculptor from the sculptor named Olympus who made Xenophon’s statue.) “Pyrilampes’ by a sculptor of the same name, not a Sicyonian, but from Messene near Ithome.”
Book 6 · Chapter 15
- with Xenon (Pyrilampes made Xenon's statue.) “the statue of Xenon, the son of Calliteles, of Lepreus in Triphylia, who beat all the boys in the stadium, was made by the Messenian Pyrilampes”
Book 6 · Chapter 16
- with Asamon (Pyrilampes made Asamon's statue.) “the statue of Asamon who beat all the men in boxing, and that of Nicander, who had two victories at Olympia in the double course, and six at Nemea for racing generally. Asamon and Nicander were both natives of Elis, and the statue of the latter was by Daippus, that of the former by the Messenian Pyrilampes.”
- with Asamon (Pyrilampes made Asamon's statue.) “that of the former by the Messenian Pyrilampes”
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Extracted from the original text of Pausanias' Description of Greece. Made with Rho MD.