Cantharus
(Κάνθαρος), a comic poet of Athens. (Suid. s.v. Eudoc. p. 269.) The only thing we have to guide us in determining his age is, that the cornedy entitled Symmachia, which commonly went by the name of Plato, was ascribed by some to Cantharus, whence we may infer, that he was a contemporary of Plato, the comic poet. Besides some fragments of the Symmachia, we possess a few of two other comedies, viz. the Medeia (Suid. and Mich. Apostol. s. v. Ἀράβιος αὐλητής; Pollux, 4.61), and Tereus. (Athen. 3.81; Mich. Apostol. s. v. Ἀθηναία.) Of two other comedies mentioned by Suidas, the Μύρμηκες and the Ἀηδόνες, no fragments are extant. (Meineke, Hist. Crit. Com. Graec. p. 251.) [L.S]
(Κάνθαρος), a statuary and embosser of Sicyon, the son of Alexis and pupil of Eutychides. (Paus. 6.3.3.) According to Pliny (H. A. 34.8. s. 19), there flourished an artist Eutychides about B. C. 300. If this was the teacher of Cantharus, as is probable, his father Alexis cannot have been the artist of that name who is reckoned by Pliny (l.c.) amongst the pupils of the older Polycletus, for this Polycletus was already an old man at B. C. 420. Cantharus, therefore, flourished about B. C. 268. He seems to have excelled in athletes. (Paus. 6.3.3, 6.17.5.) [W.I]
- a Sicyonian sculptor, pupil of Eutychides: Paus. 6.3.6, Paus. 6.17.7