Rhoecus

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Rhoecus

Rhoecus (or Rhœcus, Rhoikos) was a Samian

Samos Island

Samos is a Greece island in the North Aegean sea, south of Chios, north of Patmos and the Dodecanese, and off the Ionian coast of Turkey....
sculptor of the 6th century BCE. He and his son Theodorus

Theodorus of Samos

Theodorus of Samos was a 6th century BC Ancient Greece sculpture and architect from the Greek island of Samos Island. Along with Rhoecus, he was often credited with the invention of ore smelting and, according to Pausanias , the craft of casting....
were especially noted for their work in bronze

Bronze

Bronze is a metal alloy consisting primarily of copper, usually with tin as the main additive, but sometimes with other chemical element such as phosphorus, manganese, aluminium, or silicon....
. Herodotus

Herodotus

Herodotus of Halicarnassus was a Greeks historian who lived in the 5th century BC and is regarded as the "Father of History" in Western culture....
says that Rhoecus built the temple of Hera

Hera

In the Twelve Olympians of classical Greek Mythology, Hera or Here was the wife and older sister of Zeus. Her chief function was as goddess of women and marriage....
at Samos, which was destroyed by fire c. 530 BCE. In the temple of Artemis

Artemis

In Greek mythology, Artemis was the daughter of Zeus and Leto, and the twin sister of Apollo. She was the Hellenic goddess of forests and hills, child birth/virginity/fertility, the hunt and was often depicted as a huntress carrying a bow and arrows.....
at Ephesus

Ephesus

Ephesus was an ancient Greek city on the west coast of Anatolia, in the region known as Ionia during the period known as Classical Greece. It was one of the twelve cities of the Ionian League....
was a marble

Marble

Marble is a nonfoliated metamorphic rock resulting from the metamorphism of limestone, composed mostly of calcite . It is extensively used for Marble sculpture, as a architecture material, and in many other applications....
figure of night by Rhoecus. His name has been found on a fragment of a vase which he dedicated to Aphrodite

Aphrodite

Aphrodite is the classical Greek mythology goddess of love, sex, and beauty. According to Greek oral poet Hesiod, she was born when Uranus was castrated by his son Cronus....
at Naucratis

Naucratis

Naucratis or Naukratis, , loosely translated as " power over ships" , was a city of Ancient Egypt, on the Canopus, Egypt branch of the Nile river, 45 mi SE of the open sea and the later capital of Ptolemaic Egypt, Alexandria....
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