Cephisodotus the Elder

Cephisodotus or Kephisodotos (Greek: Κηφισόδοτος, flourished c. 400 – c. 360 BC[1]) was a Greek sculptor, perhaps the father or an uncle of Praxiteles, one of whose sculptor sons was Cephisodotus the Younger.

[2] The one noted work of his was Eirene (Peace) bearing the infant Ploutos (Wealth), ca 380–370 BC,[3] of which a Roman point copy exists at the Glyptothek, Munich, and fragments in various collections.

The Eirene, commissioned by the city of Athens and set up on the Areopagus,[4] was attributed to Cephisodotus by Pausanias in the 2nd century AD.

He sculpted certain statues for the city of Megalopolis,[6] founded by Epaminondas in 369 BC; Pausanias noted them in its principal temple in the 2nd century AD.

Two heads long thought to be feminine and inserted in female busts, one formerly in the Lansdowne collection[7] and the other in the Massarenti collection, Rome,[8] now recognized to be of Apollo, were attributed to Cephisodotus by Dorothy Kent Hill in 1974.