Rhœcus

Family: Samos · Role: sculptor · First appears: Book 8 · Chapter 14

In Book 8, Chapter 14, Rhœcus, son of Philæus, and Theodorus became the first makers of cast-brass statues. By Book 9, Chapter 41, they were named as the first brass-founders.

Relationship record

Life events

• Rhœcus and Theodorus became the first makers of cast-brass statues.(Book 8 · Chapter 14)
  • With: Theodorus
  • “For the first who fused and made statues of cast brass were Rhœcus the son of Philæus and Theodorus the son of Telecles both of Samos.”

Book 8 · Chapter 14

• parent: Philæus “Rhœcus the son of Philæus”

Book 9 · Chapter 41

• with Theodorus (They are jointly identified as early brass-founders.) “the Samians Theodorus and Rhœcus were the first brass-founders.”

Book 10 · Chapter 38

• parent: Philæus “I showed in a previous part of my work that the Samians Rhœcus, (the son of Philæus), and Theodorus, (the son of Telecles), were the first brass-founders.”

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