Cantharus

Family: Sicyon · Role: sculptor · First appears: Book 6 · Chapter 3

Cantharus was a Sicyonian sculptor, the son of Alexis and a pupil of Eutychides. In Book 6, Chapter 3, his statue of Cratinus is mentioned; in Chapter 17, he is named as the sculptor of Alexinicus of Elis.

Relationship record

Book 6 · Chapter 3

• parent: Alexis “the Sicyonian Cantharus, whose father was Alexis”
• mentor: Eutychides “and teacher Eutychides.”
• with Cratinus (interaction) “And his statue was by the Sicyonian Cantharus”
• with Cratinus (interaction) “And his statue was by the Sicyonian Cantharus”

Book 6 · Chapter 17

• with Alexinicus (Cantharus sculpted the statue of Alexinicus.) “as Alexinicus of Elis (by the Sicyonian Cantharus)”

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