Ptolichus

Family: Corcyra · Role: pupil of Critias · First appears: Book 6 · Chapter 3

Critias was the tutor of the Corcyræan Ptolichus, who was in turn the pupil of Amphion (pupil of Ptolichus). In Book 6, Chapter 9, Ptolichus is described as the pupil of his father, Synnoon, and as the maker of a statue of Theognetus, who was crowned for wrestling among the boys.

Relationship record

Book 6 · Chapter 3

• mentor: Critias “For Critias was the tutor of the Corcyræan Ptolichus”
• pupil: Amphion (pupil of Ptolichus) “and Amphion was the pupil of Ptolichus”

Book 6 · Chapter 9

• mentor: Synnoon (Synnoon was Ptolichus's teacher.) “Ptolichus of Ægina, the pupil of his father Synnoon”
• with Theognetus (Ptolichus sculpted Theognetus's statue.) “the statue of Theognetus of Ægina, who was crowned for wrestling among the boys, is by Ptolichus of Ægina”

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