Eutychides ( grc, Εὐτυχίδης, ) of

Sicyon Sicyon (; el, Σικυών; ''gen''.: Σικυῶνος) or Sikyon 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. An ancient mona ...

in Corinthia, Greek sculptor of the early part of the 3rd century BC, was a pupil of Lysippus.Ogden, ''The Legend of Seleucus'', p. 136. 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 The Orontes (; from Ancient Greek , ) or Asi ( ar, العاصي, , ; tr, Asi) is a river with a length of in Western Asia that begins in Lebanon, flowing northwards through Syria before entering the Mediterranean Sea near Samandağ in Turkey. A ...

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. 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.Legras & Christien, ''Sparte héllenistique'', p. 181.

List of known works

* Tyche of AntiochLegras & Christien, ''Sparte héllenistique'', p. 181. * Allegory of the Eurotas river, in SpartaLegras & Christien, ''Sparte héllenistique'', p. 181. * Allegory of the NileLegras & Christien, ''Sparte héllenistique'', p. 181. * Allegory of the Orontes riverLegras & Christien, ''Sparte héllenistique'', p. 181. * Herakles seated and reclining on his mace, in SpartaLegras & Christien, ''Sparte héllenistique'', p. 181.

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Bibliography

* Bernard Legras & Jacqueline Christien,
Dialogues d'histoire ancienne Supplément N° 11, Sparte hellénistique, IVe-IIIe siècles avant notre ère
', Presses universitaires de Franche-Comté, 2014. * Daniel Ogden, ''The Legend of Seleucus, Kingship, Narrative and Mythmaking in the Ancient Greek World'', Cambridge University Press, 2017. 4th-century BC Greek sculptors Ancient Greek sculptors Hellenistic sculptors Ancient Sicyonians People of the Seleucid Empire {{AncientGreece-bio-stub