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Sthennis
( fl c. 325–c. 280 BC). Greek sculptor. He was the son of Herodotos of Olynthos and the father of Herodoros, both of whom were also sculptors. He was born in Olynthos before 348 BC when the city was destroyed by Philip of Macedon. His later signatures on statue bases record his citizenship as Athenian or from the Attic deme Diomeia. He was a contemporary of Lysippos as well as Leochares, and continued to work during the reign of Lysimachos (287–281 BC). Many of his works were brought to Rome, including statues of Demeter, Zeus and Athena which were displayed in the Temple of Concord; matrons weeping, praying or sacrificing (Pliny: Natural History XXXIV.xc); a portrait of the philosopher Dion of Ephesos (Inscr. Gr./1, XIV, 1149); and a portrait of Autolykos, the founder of Sinope (Plutarch: Lucullus xxiii). Other works include a portrait of Hadeia, the wife of Autolykos, in the amphiareion at Oropos (Inscr. Gr./1, VII, 279); a group of statues representing the family of Pandaites on the Acropolis of Athens, sculpted with Leochares (Inscr. Gr./2, II, 3829); two equestrian statues of noblemen of Elis set up in Olympia (Pausanias: Guide to Greece VI.xvi.8); and a statue dedicated by Sthennis, the base of which was discovered in the Theatre of Dionysos in Athens (Inscr. Gr./2, II, 4902).
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