Pantias
Family: Chios · Role: sculptor · First appears: Book 6 · Chapter 3
In Book 6, Chapter 3, Pantias is described as a pupil of Aristocles through six intermediate links, and a work is attributed to him as “It is by Pantias.”
In Chapter 9, Pantias is identified as a Chian sculptor and a pupil of his father, Sostratus. He made the statue of Aristeus, winner of the long course. In Chapter 14, he made the statue of Xenodicus, a victor in the boys’ boxing matches; the horse-race victor Xenombrotus was by Philotimus of Ægina.
Relationship record
Book 6 · Chapter 3
- mentor: Aristocles “Pantias, who by six intermediate links was a pupil of Aristocles the Sicyonian.”
- with Nicostratus (interaction) “It is by Pantias”
- with Nicostratus (interaction) “It is by Pantias, who by six intermediate links was a pupil of Aristocles the Sicyonian.”
Book 6 · Chapter 9
- mentor: Sostratus (Sostratus taught Pantias.) “the Chian Pantias, a pupil of his father Sostratus”
- with Aristeus (Pantias sculpted Aristeus's statue.) “the statue of the Argive Aristeus, who won the prize in the long course, is by the Chian Pantias”
- parent: Sostratus (Sostratus was Pantias's father.) “Pantias, a pupil of his father Sostratus”
Book 6 · Chapter 14
- with Xenodicus (Pantias made Xenodicus's statue.) “the latter is by Pantias, and the former by Philotimus of Ægina.”
- with Xenodicus (Pantias made Xenodicus's statue.) “And the boy seated on a horse and the man standing by the horse are as the inscription says Xenombrotus of Cos in Meropis, who was proclaimed victor in the horse-race, and Xenodicus who was proclaimed victor in the boxing matches for boys, the latter is by Pantias, and the former by Philotimus of Ægina.”
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Extracted from the original text of Pausanias' Description of Greece. Made with Rho MD.