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EUTYCHIDES

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Originally appearing in Volume V09, Page 958 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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EUTYCHIDES  , of

Sicyon in
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Achaea, Greek 'sculptor of the latter
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part of the 4th century B.C., was a pupil of
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Lysippus . His most noted
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work was a statue of Fortune, which he made for the city of
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Antioch, then newly founded . The goddess, who embodied the idea of the city, was seated on a rock, crowned with towers, and having the
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river
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Orontes at her feet . There is a small copy of the statue in the Vatican (see GREEK
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ART) . It was imitated by a number of
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Asiatic cities; and indeed most statues of cities since erected borrow something from the work of Eutychides .

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