What is "polycles"

Polycles, mentioned in Pliny's Natural History (XXXV.8.19), was an ancient Greek sculptor who flourished during the 102nd Olympiad (370 BCE). He was a contemporary of Cephisodotus the Elder and Leochares. Among the statues of Olympian winners, Pausanias (Description of Greece (vi.4.3) noted the statue of a winner in the pankration by the Athenian Polycles, probably this one.

Polycles was an ancient Greek sculptor, flourished about the 156th Olympiad (155 BC), mentioned in Pliny's Natural History. In Pliny's list, the name of this Polycles is followed by Athenaeus, either to be taken as the name of another sculptor or as Polycles's birthplace. A Juno by him stood in the Portico of Octavia at Rome. The sculpture principally associated with this sculptor is a Hermaphroditus, of which there are no clues in Pliny as to whether it was standing or reclining, but which the surviving Roman copies are taken to be replicas of Polycles' bronze original. The Borghese Hermaphroditus is said to be one of these copies.

Polycles, an ancient Greek name, may refer to:

• Polycles (370 BC), sculptor, flourished about the 102nd Olympiad (370 BCE), mentioned in Pliny's Natural History
• Polycles of Sparta, Olympic winner in 440 BC
• Polycles of Cyrene, Olympic winner in 348 BC
• Polycles (155 BC), sculptor flourished about the 156th Olympiad (155 BCE), mentioned in Pliny's Natural History
• Against Polycles, judicial oration by Pseudo-Demosthenes (384–322 BCE)