Canachus
Family: human · Role: sculptor · First appears: Book 2 · Chapter 10
In Book 2, Chapter 10, Canachus, a native of Sicyon, designed the seated gold-and-ivory figure of Aphrodite. The account also credits him with the Didymæan Apollo for the Milesians and the Ismenian Apollo for the Thebans.
By Book 6, he is described as the brother of Aristocles and a pupil of Polycletus; he made the statue of Bycelus, the first Sicyonian to win the boys’ boxing contest. In Book 9, Chapter 10, the account says that seeing one of his statues and learning its maker’s name makes it easy to recognize another as his work.
In Book 10, Chapter 9, statues of Axionicus from Pellene, Epicyridas, Eteonicus, Theares from Hermion, Pyrrhias from Phocis, Comon from Megara, Agasimenes from Sicyon, Telycrates from Leucas, Pythodotus from Corinth, and Euantidas from Ambracia are attributed to Patrocles and Canachus.
Relationship record
Life events
- Canachus designed the seated gold-and-ivory figure of Aphrodite.(Book 2 · Chapter 10 · 📍 temple of Aphrodite)
- With: Aphrodite
- “Her figure seated is the design of Canachus a native of Sicyon,”
Book 2 · Chapter 10
- with Aphrodite (Canachus designed the seated figure of Aphrodite.) “Next is the temple of Aphrodite. None may enter into it but a maiden Sacristan, who must never marry, and another maiden who performs the annual rites. This maiden they call bath-carrier. All others alike must only look at the goddess from the porch and worship her there. Her figure seated is the design of Canachus a native of Sicyon,”
- with Didymæan Apollo (Canachus designed the Didymæan Apollo.) “Her figure seated is the design of Canachus a native of Sicyon, (who also designed the Didymæan Apollo for the Milesians, and the Ismenian Apollo for the Thebans).”
- with Ismenian Apollo (Canachus designed the Ismenian Apollo.) “Her figure seated is the design of Canachus a native of Sicyon, (who also designed the Didymæan Apollo for the Milesians, and the Ismenian Apollo for the Thebans).”
Book 6 · Chapter 9
- siblings with Aristocles “Aristocles of Sicyon, the brother of Canachus”
Book 6 · Chapter 13
- with Bycelus (Canachus made the statue of Bycelus.) “And the statue of Bycelus, who was the first of the Sicyonians to conquer among boys in boxing, is by the Sicyonian Canachus”
- mentor: Polycletus (Polycletus was Canachus's teacher.) “the Sicyonian Canachus, who was a pupil of the Argive Polycletus”
Book 9 · Chapter 10
- with Apollo (Canachus sculpted the statue of Apollo.) “Whoever has seen one of these statues and learnt the statuary’s name will not need much sagacity, if he sees the other, to know that it is by Canachus.”
Book 10 · Chapter 9
- with Axionicus from Pellene (interaction) “All these are they say by Patrocles and Canachus”
- with Epicyridas (made the statue of Epicyridas) “All these are they say by Patrocles and Canachus”
- with Eteonicus (made the statue of Eteonicus) “All these are they say by Patrocles and Canachus”
- with Theares from Hermion (made the statue of Theares) “All these are they say by Patrocles and Canachus”
- with Pyrrhias from Phocis (made the statue of Pyrrhias) “All these are they say by Patrocles and Canachus”
- with Comon from Megara (made the statue of Comon) “All these are they say by Patrocles and Canachus”
- with Agasimenes from Sicyon (made the statue of Agasimenes) “All these are they say by Patrocles and Canachus”
- with Telycrates from Leucas (made the statue of Telycrates) “All these are they say by Patrocles and Canachus”
- with Pythodotus from Corinth (made the statue of Pythodotus) “All these are they say by Patrocles and Canachus”
- with Euantidas from Ambracia (made the statue of Euantidas) “All these are they say by Patrocles and Canachus”
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Extracted from the original text of Pausanias' Description of Greece. Made with Rho MD.