Polycles

Family: Athens · Role: statuary · First appears: Book 6 · Chapter 4

At Olympia, Polycles, surnamed Polychalcus, won the four-horse chariot-race and victories in three major games. He was a pupil of Stadieus, another Athenian statuary, and made a statue of Amyntas, an Ephesian pancratiast and son of Hellanicus. Later, a statue of Agesarchus was attributed to Polycles’ sons.

Relationship record

Life events

• Polycles won the four-horse chariot-race and victories in three major games.(Book 6 · Chapter 1 · 📍 Olympia)
  • “Polycles, surnamed Polychalcus, was victor in the chariot-race with 4 horses abreast”

Book 6 · Chapter 4

• mentor: Stadieus (Polycles was Stadieus's pupil.) “another Athenian statuary Polycles, the pupil of the Athenian Stadieus”
• with Amyntas (Polycles made Amyntas's statue.) “has made a statue of the Ephesian pancratiast, Amyntas the son of Hellanicus”

Book 6 · Chapter 12

• child: Polycles' sons “And the statue of Agesarchus is by the sons of Polycles, of whom we shall make mention later on.”

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