Nicodamus ( grc, Νικόδαμος) was a sculptor from

Maenalus Maenalus or Mainalos ( grc, Μαίναλος) was a town of ancient Arcadia, and the capital of the district Maenalia (Μαιναλία), which formed part of the territory of Megalopolis upon the foundation of the latter city. Maenalus was in ru ...

(modern Mainalo) in

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, who made statues of the Olympic victors Androsthenes, Antiochus of Arcadia, and Damoxenidas; one of the goddess

Athena Athena or Athene, often given the epithet Pallas, is an ancient Greek religion, ancient Greek goddess associated with wisdom, warfare, and handicraft who was later syncretism, syncretized with the Roman goddess Minerva. Athena was regarded ...

, in bronze and carrying her helmet and

aegis The aegis ( ; grc, αἰγίς ''aigís''), as stated in the ''Iliad'', is a device carried by Athena and Zeus, variously interpreted as an animal skin or a shield and sometimes featuring the head of a Gorgon. There may be a connection with a d ...

, dedicated by the

Eleans Elis () or Eleia ( el, Ήλιδα, Ilida, grc-att, Ἦλις, Ēlis ; Elean: , ethnonym: ) is an ancient district in Greece that corresponds to the modern regional unit of Elis. Elis is in southern Greece on the Peloponnese, bounded on ...

; and one of

Hercules Hercules (, ) is the Roman equivalent of the Greek divine hero Heracles, son of Jupiter and the mortal Alcmena. In classical mythology, Hercules is famous for his strength and for his numerous far-ranging adventures. The Romans adapted the ...

, as a youth, killing the Nemean lion with his arrows, dedicated at Olympia by Hippotion of Tarentum. Since Androsthenes conquered in the pancration event in the 90th Olympiad, in 420 BC, the date of Nicodamus may be placed about that time. German archaeologist and art historian

Johannes Overbeck Johannes Adolph Overbeck (27 March 1826 – 8 November 1895) was a German archaeologist and art historian. Biography Overbeck was born in Antwerp. He was son-in-law to zoologist Georg August Goldfuss (1782-1848), and was father-in-law to anth ...

placed Nicodamus in this time with certainty in his ''Ancient manuscript sources on the history of Greek fine arts'' (''Die antiken Schriftquellen zur Geschichte der bildenden Künste bei den Griechen''), which he wrote in 1868.

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