Glaucus of Chios

Glaucus of Chios (c. 700 BC) is, according to tradition as the inventor of soldering artwork. According to Jerome, he is the soldering artwork in the fourth year of the 21st Olympiad, have so 693/2 BC invented. Earlier ornaments were either riveted or stapled.

Glaucus was born a native of Chios and one counted it to Sami school. He is mainly attributed to an iron pedestal for a silver crater, the later Alyattes II (reigned 605-561 BC ), King of Lydia, the oracle of Delphi consecrated. Athenaeus saw this yet and describes him as worth seeing and decorated with animals, insects and plants during his visit ( around 200 AD ) in Delphi.

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  • Athenaeus: Deipnosophistai, 5, 45
  • Herodotus: Histories, 1, 25
  • Jerome: chronicles, Merton manuscript.
  • Pausanias Periegetes: Travel in Greece, 10, 16, 1 - 2
  • Plutarch: De defectu oraculorum, 436
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