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    The Atlas·Figures

    Alcamenes

    historical figure · 3 works · 3 mentions · 4 anchored passages

    Alcamenes son of Sthenelaidas

    in the texts

    On the Nature of the GodsHellenistic · Latin

    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:
    chapter 13

    OrationsImperial · Greek

    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.
    oration 12

    History of the Peloponnesian WarClassical · Greek

    Spartan commander appointed first for Euboea, then for the Lesbos expedition, killed in the Athenian attack at the Corinthian Piraeus.

    and the Athenians severely damaged most of their ships on the beach, and killed Alcamenes their commander;
    chapter 8
    After the festival the Peloponnesians set sail for Chios with one and twenty ships under the command of Alcamenes;
    chapter 8
    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.
    chapter 8