Pausanias' Description of Greece

Euclides

Role: father of Smilis · First appears: Book 7 · Chapter 4

In Book 7, Chapter 4, Euclides is identified as the father of Smilis, an Æginetan sculptor. By Chapter 25, he is named as the Athenian maker of Pentelican-marble statues of Demeter, Aphrodite, Dionysus, and Ilithyia.

In Chapter 26, at Ægira, Euclides made a seated statue of Zeus in Pentelican marble.

Relationship record

Life events

  • Euclides made the seated statue of Zeus in Pentelican marble.(Book 7 · Chapter 26 · 📍 Ægira)
    • With: Zeus
    • “At Ægira there is a handsome temple of Zeus, and his statue in a sitting posture in Pentelican marble by the Athenian Euclides.”

Book 7 · Chapter 4

  • child: Smilis “the statue, which is by the Æginetan Smilis, the son of Euclides”

Book 7 · Chapter 25

  • with Demeter (Euclides made the statue.) “There are temples here to Demeter, and Aphrodite, and Dionysus, and Ilithyia. Their statues are of Pentelican marble by the Athenian Euclides.”
  • with Aphrodite (Euclides made the statue.) “There are temples here to Demeter, and Aphrodite, and Dionysus, and Ilithyia. Their statues are of Pentelican marble by the Athenian Euclides.”
  • with Dionysus (Euclides made the statue.) “There are temples here to Demeter, and Aphrodite, and Dionysus, and Ilithyia. Their statues are of Pentelican marble by the Athenian Euclides.”
  • with Ilithyia (Euclides made the statue.) “There are temples here to Demeter, and Aphrodite, and Dionysus, and Ilithyia. Their statues are of Pentelican marble by the Athenian Euclides.”

Book 7 · Chapter 26

  • with Zeus (Euclides made the statue of Zeus.) “At Ægira there is a handsome temple of Zeus, and his statue in a sitting posture in Pentelican marble by the Athenian Euclides.”

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