Canachus ( ) was a

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Sicyon Sicyon (; ; ''gen''.: Σικυῶνος) or Sikyōn was an ancient Greek city state situated in the northern Peloponnesus between Corinth and Achaea on the territory of the present-day regional unit of Corinthia. The ruins lie just west of th ...

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, in the latter part of the 6th century . He was especially noted as the author of two great statues of

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, one in

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made for the temple at

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near

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, and one in

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wood made for Thebes. The coins of Miletus furnish us with copies of the former and show the god to have held a stag in one hand and a bow in the other. The rigidity of these works naturally impressed later critics. Sculptures of two Spartan soldiers who fought at the

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were attributed to Canachus by Pausanias. These sculptures were probably the work of his namesake grandson,

Canachus the Younger Canachus the Younger (in Greek; Κάναχος ο Σικυώνιος, 5th/4th century BC) was a sculptor from Sicyon. A known work of his is the bronze statue of the Olympic victor Bycelus of Sicyon during the 95th (400 BC) Olympic Games of antiqu ...

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