Cephisodotus the Younger

Kephisodotos (Greek Κηφισόδοτος ) was an ancient Greek sculptor and bronze caster at the end of the 4th century and the beginning of the 3rd century BC in Athens.

Kephisodotos came from a family of famous sculptors. His father was Praxiteles, one of the most important and best-known sculptor of the entire ancient world, his grandfather and namesake Kephisodotos the Elder. He worked with his brother Timarchos, with whom he was apparently equally at work. A certain proportion of the individual brothers at work can not be determined.

A work of the brothers is recognizable today. 1990 succeeded after a long research archaeologist Klaus Fittschen, from 72 replicas of the head and seven replicas of the body and the written tradition to reconstruct the seated statue of the poet Menander, after the poet's death 291/90 BC the Athenian theater of Dionysus was created. In 1882, the base at the point mentioned by Pausanias was found. The inscription at the base called Kephisodotos and Timarchos as the creator of the statue. The many surviving replicas are evidence of the high esteem in which works and artists met with in ancient times. The reconstruction shows a very quiet statue. The seated Menander facing away from the viewer with head tilted thoughtfully.

It is often the brothers and the Venere Capitolina assigned, which was a modification of the Aphrodite of Knidos her father. Further works are known due to the literary tradition and due to inscriptions on the bases obtained. So they created statues in Athens, Delphi, Kos, Megara and Troizen, of which the bases are obtained. Several of the statues were brought to Rome later. Thus, a statue of Leto stood in the temple of Apollo on the Palatine, and Asklepios and Artemis in Iunotempel at the portico Octaviae. A statue of Ennyo stood in the Agora of Athens. In the Erechtheum on the Acropolis were statues of Lycurgus and his three sons, who were created from wood. For Thebes they should have made ​​a statue of Dionysus, for Megalopolis a cult statue group with Zeus, Artemis and the personification of Megalopolis, but this was possibly created by her grandfather. Kephisodotos should also have created even more statues of poets, Myro and Anyte as well as portraits of philosophers next to the statue of Menander. An inscription on the base in Eleusis, the science problems since it is dated to the year 344 BC and called the creator of the Statue associated Kephisodotos and Timarchos, but what really is too early for the brothers, as the still more than 50 years before the terminus post quem of the statue of Menander would.