Calamis
Family: Greek · Role: sculptor · First appears: Book 1 · Chapter 3
Calamis’s works include an Apollo called Averter of Evil (Book 1, Chapter 3) and a votive offering of Callias designed by him (Book 1, Chapter 23). At the temple of Æsculapius in Book 2, Chapter 10, he made a beardless gold-and-ivory statue of the god, holding a sceptre and a pine-cone.
Later accounts attribute to Calamis an imitation of the Wingless Victory statue (Book 5, Chapter 26), horses and riders associated with Hiero the son of Dinomenes (Book 6, Chapter 12), and statues of Ammon, Dionysus, and Hermes (Book 9, Chapters 16, 20, and 22). In Book 10, his works include a statue of Hermione offered by the Lacedæmonians; Praxias, whose faces appear on statues in that chapter, is identified as his pupil.
Relationship record
Life events
- Calamis created a beardless gold-and-ivory statue of Æsculapius.(Book 2 · Chapter 10 · 📍 temple of Æsculapius)
- With: Æsculapius
- “At the entrance is the god himself (Æsculapius) beardless, in gold and ivory, the work of Calamis:”
Book 1 · Chapter 3
- with Apollo (Calamis represented Apollo.) “and Calamis the Apollo who is called Averter of Evil”
Book 1 · Chapter 23
- with Callias (interaction) “a votive offering of Callias, designed by Calamis”
Book 2 · Chapter 10
- with Æsculapius (Calamis made the statue of Æsculapius.) “At the entrance is the god himself (Æsculapius) beardless, in gold and ivory, the work of Calamis: he has his sceptre in one hand, and in the other the fruit of the pine-tree.”
Book 5 · Chapter 26
- with Victory (Calamis made an imitation of the statue of Victory.) “it is said to be an imitation by Calamis of the wooden statue at Athens of Wingless Victory”
Book 6 · Chapter 12
- with Hiero the son of Dinomenes (interaction) “and the horses on both sides and the boys on them are by Calamis.”
Book 9 · Chapter 16
- with Ammon (Calamis made the statue of Ammon.) “the temple of Ammon, the statue by Calamis”
Book 9 · Chapter 20
- with Dionysus (Calamis made the statue of Dionysus.) “the statue of the god by Calamis in Parian stone is well worth looking at”
Book 9 · Chapter 22
- with Hermes (Calamis made a statue of Hermes.) “that is why Calamis made a statue of Hermes carrying a ram on his shoulders.”
Book 10 · Chapter 16
- with Hermione (Calamis made a statue of Hermione.) “Here is a votive offering of the Lacedæmonians, a statue by Calamis of Hermione, the daughter of Menelaus and wife of Orestes”
Book 10 · Chapter 19
- pupil: Praxias “The faces of all these are by the Athenian Praxias, the pupil of Calamis:”
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Extracted from the original text of Pausanias' Description of Greece. Made with Rho MD.