Eutychides

Eutychides is also the former name of the spider genus Entychides

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]

Marble Roman copy of Eutychides' Tyche of Antioch, Galleria dei Candelabri, Vatican Museums; original dates back to the 3rd century BC.

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

• 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]

Bronze copy from Tartus of the Tyche of Antioch, 1st or 2nd century AD, Louvre Museum