Gitiadas
Family: Sparta · Role: artificer · First appears: Book 3 · Chapter 17
Many years after the temple was completed, Gitiadas, a native of Sparta, made its brass statue of Athene. He also composed Doric poems and a hymn to the goddess. He designed and made statues of Aphrodite and Artemis.
Relationship record
Life events
- Gitiadas created Athene’s brass statue for the completed temple.(Book 3 · Chapter 17)
- With: Athene
- “the Lacedæmonians many years afterwards completed the temple, and made a statue of Athene in brass. And the artificer was Gitiadas a native of Sparta”
Book 3 · Chapter 17
- with Athene (Gitiadas made the brass statue of Athene.) “And the artificer was Gitiadas a native of Sparta, who also composed Doric poems and a hymn to the goddess.”
Book 3 · Chapter 18
- with Aphrodite (interaction) “Under the first of these is a statue of Aphrodite, under the second one of Artemis, both the design and work of Gitiadas.”
- with Artemis (interaction) “Under the first of these is a statue of Aphrodite, under the second one of Artemis, both the design and work of Gitiadas.”
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Extracted from the original text of Pausanias' Description of Greece. Made with Rho MD.