Theocles

Family: Lacedæmonian · Role: sculptor · First appears: Book 3 · Chapter 13

Theocles was a Lacedæmonian sculptor and the son of Hegylus. He was said to have been a pupil of Scyllis and Dipœnus, and was the father of Crius.

At Olympia, Theocles carved cedar figures of Atlas, Hercules, and the Hesperidean apple tree, with a dragon coiled around it.

Relationship record

Life events

• Theocles carved the cedar figures of Atlas, Hercules, and the Hesperidean apple tree.(Book 6 · Chapter 19 · 📍 Olympia)
  • “Hercules and the apple tree in the garden of the Hesperides with the dragon coiled round it, carved in cedar-wood, the carving of Theocles”

Book 3 · Chapter 13

• child: Crius “Crius, the son of Theocles the prophet”

Book 5 · Chapter 17

• parent: Hegylus “Theocles, a Lacedæmonian also, the son of Hegylus”
• mentor: Scyllis “who is also said to have been a pupil of Scyllis and Dipœnus.”
• mentor: Dipœnus “who is also said to have been a pupil of Scyllis and Dipœnus.”

Book 6 · Chapter 19

• parent: Hegylus “the carving of Theocles (the son of Hegylus) who says his son joined him in the carving of the world.”

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Extracted from the original text of Pausanias' Description of Greece. Made with Rho MD.