Eutychides

a freedman of Atticus. After his manumission by Atticus, his name naturally was T. Pomponius Eutychides; but when Atticus was adopted by Q. Caecilius, his freedman also altered his name into T. Caecilius Eutychides. (Cic. Att. 4.15.) [L.S]

(Εὐτυχίδης).

1. Of Sicyon, a statuary in bronze and marble, is placed by Pliny at Ol. 10, B. C. 300. (34.8. s. 19.) He was a disciple of Lysippus. (Paus. 6.2.4.) He made in bronze a statue of the river Eurotas, " in quo artem ipso amne liquidiorem plurimi dixere" (Plin. l.c. § 16), one of the Olympic victor Timosthenes, of Elis, and a highly-prized statue of Fortune for the Syrians on the Orontes. (Paus. l.c.) There is a copy of the last-named work in the Vatican Museum. (Visconti, Mus. Pio.-Clem. t. iii. tab. 46.) His statue of Father Liber, in the collection of Asinius Pollio, was of marble. (Plin. Nat. 36.5. s. 4.10.) A statue of Priapus is mentioned in the Greek Anthology (Brunck, Anal. ii. p. 311; Jacobs, iii. p. 24, No. xiv.) as the work of Eutychides, but it is not known whether Eutychides of Sicyon is meant. Cantharus of Sicyon was the pupil of Eutychides. [Cantharus.]

2. A painter of unknown time and country. He painted Victory driving a biga. (Plin. Nat. 35.11. s. 40.34.)

3. A sculptor, whose name occurs in a sepulchral epigram in the Greek Anthology. (Brunck, Anal. vol. iii. p. 307; Jacobs, vol. iv. p. 274, No. DCCXIX.) [P.S]

(Εὐτυχίδης). A sculptor of Sicyon, a pupil of Lysippus. He flourished in B.C. 300.

• Hdt. 9.73

• pupil of Lysippus: Paus. 6.2.7, Paus. 6.3.6