Antiphanes
( fl c. 414-c. 369 BC). Greek sculptor of the Argive school, student of Periklytos (who was himself a pupil of Polykleitos), teacher of Kleon of Sikyon, and thus in the circle of the elder Polykleitos (Pausanias: V.xvii.3). With no preserved sculpture, knowledge of Antiphanes derives entirely from Pausanias' description (X.ix) of three Delphic monuments and three signatures: first, a bronze Trojan Horse dedicated by the Argives for a battle over Thyrea, probably the battle of 414 BC referred to by Thucydides (VI.xcv); also a Dioskouroi dedicated by Sparta as spoils from the battle of Aigospotamoi (405 BC; Dittenberger, no. 115); and finally, statues of Elatos, Apheidas and Erasos, which Pausanias claimed were part of the Tegean spoils from a battle with Sparta. A 4th-century BC inscription on a black limestone base may indicate that the dedicants were Arcadians, not just Tegeans, and thus that the battle was the devastation of Lakonia in 369 BC, although Vatin refers to a new inscription indicating that Pausanias was correct. Fragments of the limestone base also preserve the name of Antiphanes as sculptor twice (Dittenberger, no. 160), while a signature from an Argive dedication reading 'Antiphanes from Argos made it' appears on a monument commemorating the founding of Messene in 369 BC (Dittenberger, no. 161).
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