Eutychides /juːˈtɪkədiːz/ (Ancient Greek: Εὐτυχίδης, Eutukhídēs) of Sicyon in Corinthia, Greek sculptor of the early part of the 3rd century BC, was a pupil of Lysippus.^[1] His most noted work was a statue of the Tyche of Antioch, a goddess who embodied the idea of the then newly founded city of Antioch. The Tyche was seated on a rock, crowned with towers, and having the river Orontes at her feet. There is a small copy of the statue in the Vatican. It was imitated by a number of Asiatic cities; and indeed most statues since created that commemorate cities borrow something from the work of Eutychides.^[2]

At the invitation of king Areus, Eutychides spent some time in Sparta, where he made a statue of the Eurotas river, and perhaps another of a seated Herakles, in the 280s or 270s.^[3]

List of known works[edit]

• Tyche of Antioch^[3]
• Allegory of the Eurotas river, in Sparta^[3]
• Allegory of the Nile^[3]
• Allegory of the Orontes river^[3]
• Herakles seated and reclining on his mace, in Sparta^[3]

References[edit]

Attribution:

•  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Eutychides". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 9 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 958.

Bibliography[edit]

• Bernard Legras & Jacqueline Christien, Dialogues d'histoire ancienne Supplément N° 11, Sparte hellénistique, IVe-IIIe siècles avant notre ère, Presses universitaires de Franche-Comté, 2014. ISBN 978-2-84867-493-3
• Daniel Ogden, The Legend of Seleucus, Kingship, Narrative and Mythmaking in the Ancient Greek World, Cambridge University Press, 2017. ISBN 9781107164789