Archermus

Archermus (Template:Langx) was a sculptor of Chios working in the middle of the 6th century BC.<ref>chioslife.gr website [Retrieved 2011-09-15]</ref> His father, Micciades, and his sons, Bupalus and Athenis, were sculptors of marble.

A scholium on Aristophanes' Birds,<ref>Template:Harvnb cites

a scholiast on Aristophanes’ Birds, v. 573.</ref> credits Archermus with having been the first to represent Nike and Eros with wings.<ref> H. B.Cotterill (1913) 

ebooksread.com Ancient Greece : a sketch of its art, literature & philosophy viewed in connexion with its external history from earliest times to the age of Alexander the Great [Retrieved 2011-09-15]

(worldcat.org Retrieved 2011-12-05)</ref><ref>K.Sheedy jstor.org Retrieved 2011-09-15 </ref> A running archaic Nike figure that was found at Delos in 1877 (Tarbell), was at first too hopefully connected with a separate base found nearby, which recorded the execution of a statue by Archermus and Micciades;<ref>H. B. (Henry Bernard) Cotterill. Ancient Greece : a sketch of its art, literature & philosophy viewed in connexion with its external history from earliest times to the age of Alexander the Great. Retrieved 2011-09-15 </ref> at first it was dubbed the "Nike of Archermus".<ref>Athens NM 21.</ref> Unfortunately it is the base, which probably supported a sphinx, that alone is by Archermus and his father.Template:Sfn

The Museum of Classical Archaeology, Cambridge, classify their cast of the Nike as: Template:Quote

References

• Tarbell, F. B. A History Of Greek Art. Chapter V, fig. 85 (the Nike "of Archermus").

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