Laphaes
Family: human · Role: sculptor · First appears: Book 2 · Chapter 10
In Book 2, Chapter 10, Laphaes of Phlius is named as the maker of an old wooden statue of Hercules at Pædize. Later, in Chapter 21, he was expelled as king and fled to Sparta; after the Argives won the battle, they slew him and most of the Lacedæmonians.
In Book 7, Chapter 26, the Apollo at Ægira is conjectured to be by the same hand as the Hercules at Sicyon—Laphaes of Phlius.
Relationship record
Life events
- Laphaes created an old wooden statue of Hercules for the temple precincts.(Book 2 · Chapter 10 · 📍 Pædize)
- With: Hercules
- “in it is an old wooden statue of Hercules by Laphaes of Phlius.”
- Laphaes was expelled as king and later slain by the victorious Argives.(Book 2 · Chapter 21 · 📍 Sparta)
- “the people rose up against and expelled when he was king, and when he fled to Sparta the Lacedæmonians endeavoured to restore him, but the Argives being victorious in the battle slew Laphaes and most of the Lacedæmonians.”
- The Apollo statue is conjectured to have been made by Laphaes.(Book 7 · Chapter 26 · 📍 Ægira)
- With: Apollo
- “but whoever has seen the Hercules at Sicyon, would conjecture that the Apollo at Ægira was by the same hand as that, namely by Laphaes of Phlius.”
Book 2 · Chapter 10
- with Hercules (Laphaes made the wooden statue of Hercules.) “and in it is an old wooden statue of Hercules by Laphaes of Phlius.”
Book 7 · Chapter 26
- with Apollo (Laphaes is identified as the sculptor of the Apollo statue.) “but whoever has seen the Hercules at Sicyon, would conjecture that the Apollo at Ægira was by the same hand as that, namely by Laphaes of Phlius.”
- with Hercules (The Hercules statue at Sicyon is conjectured to be by the same sculptor as the Apollo, namely Laphaes.) “but whoever has seen the Hercules at Sicyon, would conjecture that the Apollo at Ægira was by the same hand as that, namely by Laphaes of Phlius.”
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Extracted from the original text of Pausanias' Description of Greece. Made with Rho MD.