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Daedalus

2. Of Sicyon, a statuary in bronze, the son and disciple of Patrocles, who is mentioned by Pliny among the artists of the 95th Olympiad. Daedalus erected a trophy for the Eleiana in the Altis after a victory over the Lacedaemonians in the war which lasted B. C. 401-399. Besides this trophy, Daedalus made several statues of athletes, and some other works. (Paus. 6.2.4; 3. §§ 2, 3; 6.1, 10.9.3; Plin. Nat. 34.8. s. 19.15.)

From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.