( fl mid-2nd century BC). Greek sculptor. He was presumably a member of the family of Athenian sculptors that included POLYKLES, TIMARCHIDES and DIONYSIOS. His activity is known from only two literary references. Pliny the elder (Natural History XXXIV.xix.52) named him with Polykles in his list of sculptors of the 156th Olympiad (156–153 BC) who revived artistic activity, which had been in decline since the 121st Olympiad (295–292 BC); Pausanias (Guide to Greece X.xxxiv.6) identified a statue of Asklepios (untraced) at Elateia as the work of Timokles and Timarchides, probably the ‘sons of Polykles’ who produced a portrait of Agesarchos at Olympia and the statue of Athena at Elateia (both untraced; Pausanias: VI.xii.9, X.xxxiv.8). The latter work is clearly strongly reminiscent of the so-called NEO-ATTIC sculptures of the later 2nd century BC, since the figures on its shield were apparently copied from the shield of the Athena Parthenos of PHEIDIAS. The portrait of Agesarchos may be datable to the same period, since his home city Triteia was described not as Achaean but as Arcadian, as it briefly was in 146 BC. Since Timarchides is not included in Pliny’s list of sculptors of the 156th Olympiad, he may have been Timokles’ younger brother, though precisely which of the two known sculptors named Timarchides he was is disputed.

• Timokles
  • Dionysios
  • Timarchides