Alcamenes biography for kids

Alkamenes (Greek, Αλκαμένη; Latin, Alcamenes) was a Greek sculptor from Athens, working in the second half of the 5th century BC.

Very little is known of his life.

Alcamenes biography for kids

Pliny the Elder wrote that he was working at the time of the 83rd Olympiad (448-445 BC), in the same period as Pheidias, Critias (Kritios), Nesiotes and Hegias (Natural history, Book 34, chapter 19), and that he was an Athenian (Natural history, Book 36, chapter 4).

However, it is now considered that he and Pheidias were working around a generation later than the other three.

According to the Suda (Ἀλκαμένης, Adler number: alpha 1269) he was from Lemnos (Λῆμνος). The northern Aegean island was an Athenian cleruchy or colony [1], and thus he may have been an Athenian citizen. A more recent theory is that the text should read Αίμνιος (Aimnios), and that he came from the Attic district