Polycles

Polycles (Πολυκλῆς). The name of two artists. The elder Polycles was probably an Athenian, and flourished about 370 BC. 370. He appears to have been one of the artists of the later Athenian school, who obtained great celebrity by the sensual charms exhibited in their works. One of his chief works was a celebrated statue of an Hermaphrodite. The younger Polycles is placed by Pliny in 155 BC, and is said to have made a statue of Juno, which was placed in the portico of Octavia at Rome, when that portico was erected by Metellus Macedonicus. But since most of the works of art with which Metellus decorated his portico were not the original productions of living artists, but the works of former masters, it has been conjectured that this Polycles may be no other than the Athenian artist already mentioned.

Polycles, another sculptor of the Attic school, a pupil of Stadieus the Athenian, has made the statue of an Ephesian boy pancratiast, Amyntas the son of Hellanicus. Pausanias

List of ancient Greek sculptors

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