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Lykios
(b Eleutherai, Boiotia; fl c. mid-5th century BC). Greek sculptor. He was trained by his father, the famous sculptor Myron (Pliny: Natural History XXXIV.xix.50). He was active in Athens and Olympia. None of his works survives; they included a bronze statue of a youth holding a basin on the Athenian Acropolis (Pausanias: Guide to Greece I.xxiii.8), of which the inscribed marble base perhaps survives (Inscr. Gr./2, I, 537). He also produced two bronze equestrian statues, which were erected at the entrance to the Acropolis, and remains of an inscribed base (Inscr. Gr./2, I, 400) show that it was a votive gift dedicated by the cavalry to commemorate the victories of Pericles (c. 446 BC). Another statue in Athens, near the prytaneion, depicted Autolykos, a champion wrestler at the Panathenaic games of 422 BC (Pausanias: I.xviii.3 and IX.xxxii.5), while the statues of The Argonauts and a youth blowing on a dying fire were also attributed to Lykios by Pliny (XXXIV.xix.79). The Ionians from Apollonia commissioned Lykios to set up a monument near the hippodameion at Olympia to commemorate a military victory of the mid-5th century BC. The long, semicircular base held 13 statues of gods and mythological figures (Pausanias: V.xxii.2–3).
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