Alcamenes
historical figure · 3 works · 3 mentions · 4 anchored passages
Alcamenes son of Sthenelaidas
in the texts
On the Nature of the Gods
Sculptor who created the statue of Vulcan at Athens depicting a limp.
And indeed we praise the Vulcan at Athens which Alcamenes made, in which, as the god stands clothed, a slight, not unsightly limp appears:
Orations
Greek sculptor named among the great artists who fashioned images of the gods.
such men were Pheidias and Alcamenes and Polycleitus, and besides Aglaophon and Polygnotus and Zeuxis, and earlier than they Daedalus.
History of the Peloponnesian War
Spartan commander appointed first for Euboea, then for the Lesbos expedition, killed in the Athenian attack at the Corinthian Piraeus.
He acceded to their proposals, and sent for Alcamenes son of Sthenelaidas, and for Melanthus, to come from Sparta and take the command in Euboea.
After the festival the Peloponnesians set sail for Chios with one and twenty ships under the command of Alcamenes;
And as the Boeotians supported their application, Agis was persuaded to defer acting in the cause of Euboea, and made preparations for the revolt of the Lesbians, giving them Alcamenes as a commander, who was to sail to Euboea;