RHOECUS  , a Samian sculptor of the 6th

century B.C . He and his son Theodorus were especially noted for their work in bronze . Herodotus says that Rhoecus built the temple of Hera at Samos . In the temple of Artemis at Ephesus was a marble figure of night by Rhoecus . His name has been found on a fragment of a vase which he dedicated to Aphrodite at Naucratis . His sons Theodorus and Telecles made a statue of the Pythian Apollo for the Samians .