Eupolemus

Family: Argive · Role: architect · First appears: Book 2 · Chapter 17

Eupolemus was an Argive architect, said to have designed the temple of Hera. At Olympia, two of the three umpires awarded him the race prize over the Ambraciote Leo; Leo subsequently received indemnity from both. His effigy was made by Dædalus of Sicyon.

Relationship record

Life events

• Two umpires awarded Eupolemus the race prize, and later received indemnity.(Book 6 · Chapter 3 · 📍 Olympia)
  • “It is further recorded about Eupolemus that of the three umpires in the race two adjudged the prize to him, and the third to the Ambraciote Leo, and that Leo at the Council of Olympia subsequently got indemnity from both the umpires who had adjudged the prize to Eupolemus.”

Book 2 · Chapter 17

• with Hera (Eupolemus was the architect of Hera's temple.) “The architect of the temple was they say Eupolemus the Argive”

Book 6 · Chapter 3

• with Dædalus (interaction) “the effigy of Eupolemus of Elis was by the Sicyonian Dædalus”
• with Dædalus (interaction) “the effigy of Eupolemus of Elis was by the Sicyonian Dædalus”

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Extracted from the original text of Pausanias' Description of Greece. Made with Rho MD.