Pæonius

Also known as: Mendæan Pæonius · Role: sculptor · First appears: Book 5 · Chapter 10

Life events

• The Messenians erected a Victory at Olympia, designed by Pæonius.(Book 5 · Chapter 26 · 📍 Olympia)
  • With: Victory
  • “erected at Olympia a Victory on a pillar, the design of the Mendæan Pæonius”

Book 5 · Chapter 10

• with Phidias (The passage states that Alcamenes, not Pæonius, was Phidias' contemporary.) “The carvings on the gables in front are by Pæonius of Mende in Thracia, those behind by Alcamenes, a contemporary of Phidias and second only to him as statuary.”

Book 5 · Chapter 26

• with Victory (Pæonius designed the statue of Victory.) “the design of the Mendæan Pæonius”

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