( fl c. 420-c. 390 BC). Greek sculptor. He was born in Argos and during the Classical period produced works in bronze, which are mentioned in ancient sources but no longer survive. Pliny (XXIV.xix.50) dated his floruit to 400-397 BC. His statue of Cheimon at Olympia (Pausanias: VI.ix.3) celebrated a victory of 448 BC but may have been made later. A statue of the boxer Eukles, also at Olympia (Pausanias: VI.vi.2), belongs to the late 5th century BC or early 4th, and his gold and ivory Hebe (Pausanias: II.xvii.5), which stood beside the cult statue, attributed to Polykleitos, in the Temple of Hera at Argos, must date after 423 BC, probably near the end of the century. Pausanias stated that Naukydes was the brother of Polykleitos (II.xxii.7) and that he was the teacher of a different, probably younger Polykleitos (VI.vi.2). The statue base of Eukles, however, names Naukydes' father as Patrokles, who was also the father of the sculptor Daidalos of Sikyon.
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