Nicodamus
Also known as: Mænalian Nicodamus · Family: Mænalian · Role: sculptor · First appears: Book 5 · Chapter 25
In Book 5, Chapter 25, the Mænalian sculptor Nicodamus is named as the designer of a Hercules shooting at the Nemean lion, offered by Hippotion. In Chapter 26, a work is attributed to him with the words “This was made by Nicodamus the Mænalian”.
By Book 6, Chapter 6, Nicodamus is credited with statues of the pancratiast Androsthenes, son of Lochæus, and the man-boxer Damoxenidas, both from Mænalus.
Relationship record
Book 5 · Chapter 25
- with Hercules (Nicodamus designed the statue of Hercules.) “The Hercules shooting at the Nemean lion is the votive offering of the Tarentine Hippotion, and the design of the Mænalian Nicodamus.”
Book 5 · Chapter 26
- with Athene (Nicodamus made the statue of Athene.) “This was made by Nicodamus the Mænalian”
Book 6 · Chapter 6
- with Androsthenes (interaction) “there is a statue, by Nicodamus of Mænalus, of the pancratiast from Mænalus, Androsthenes the son of Lochæus”
- with Damoxenidas (interaction) “Nicodamus, the statuary from Mænalus, made a statue of Damoxenidas, the man-boxer from Mænalus”
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Extracted from the original text of Pausanias' Description of Greece. Made with Rho MD.