Myro
Also known as: the Athenian Myro · Family: Athens · Role: sculptor · First appears: Book 2 · Chapter 8
In Book 2, Chapter 8, Myro is named as the parent of Aristonymus, whose son Clisthenes was king of the Sicyonians. By Book 6, Myro is identified as an Athenian sculptor: his works at Olympia include statues of Lycinus, Timanthes of Cleonæ, and Philip, son of Azan. In Book 6, Chapter 13, a statue on a pillar is attributed to Myro rather than Chionis.
In Book 9, Chapter 5, Myro is also described as a Byzantian poetess who wrote epic and elegiac verses, and whose account says Amphion first erected an altar to Hermes and received a lyre from him there. In Book 9, Chapter 30, Myro is credited with an upright statue of Dionysus, dedicated by Sulla, described as his next-best work after the Erechtheus at Athens.
Relationship record
Book 2 · Chapter 8
- child: Aristonymus “For Clisthenes the son of Aristonymus, the son of Myro, was king of the Sicyonians in the lower part of the city”
Book 6 · Chapter 2
- with Lycinus (Myro made Lycinus's statues.) “And he set up two statues at Olympia, by the Athenian Myro.”
Book 6 · Chapter 8
- with Timanthes (Myro made Timanthes's statue.) “And the statue of Timanthes of Cleonæ, who won the prize for men in the pancratium, is by the Athenian Myro,”
- with Philip (son of Azan) (Myro made Philip's statue.) “and that of Philip the son of Azan by Myro.”
Book 6 · Chapter 13
- with Chionis (Myro made the statue of Chionis.) “They are still more simple who think that the statue on the pillar is by Chionis, seeing it is by the Athenian Myro.”
Book 9 · Chapter 5
- with Amphion (Myro wrote about Amphion) “Myro, the Byzantian poetess who wrote epic and elegiac verses, says that Amphion first erected an altar to Hermes and received from him the lyre on it.”
Book 9 · Chapter 30
- with Dionysus (Myro made a statue of Dionysus.) “an upright statue of Dionysus, the votive offering of Sulla, by Myro”
- with Erechtheus (Myro made a work depicting Erechtheus.) “by Myro, the next best work to his Erechtheus at Athens”
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Extracted from the original text of Pausanias' Description of Greece. Made with Rho MD.