Leochares

Leochares was a Greek sculptor at the time of Philip of Macedon and Alexander the Great. He has worked in Athens and was a member of the middle Attic school.

He manufactured a number Zeusstatuen, images of Apollo and Ares, Ganymede, carried aloft by the eagle ( which seems to be copied to the famous Vatican group, a work of genius invention), a young merchant as well as a statue of the executed by the Thirty Tyrants athletes Autolycus that later on prytaneion (Town Hall ) was erected in Athens; also in communion with Lysippos: Alexander hunting the lion, in bronze, then to order of Philip of Macedon after the battle of Chaeronea the statues in Philippeion to Olympia: Philip, Alexander, Amyntas, Olympias and Eurydice, in gold and ivory. Leochares is also attributed to the famous Apollo Belvedere.

With Sthennis he was also employed at the monument of the family of the Andätes and Pasikles on the Acropolis at Athens, Bryaxis its western side he adorned with Scopas, inter alia, the Mausoleum of Halicarnassus, with sculptures.

Plato mentions him in his ( held by some scientists to be spurious ) " Thirteenth Letter " and calls him there a " young and capable artist." He bought with him on behalf of the tyrant Dionysius II, a statue of Apollo, which he sent to the customer after Syracuse.