Kefisodot the Elder ( Dr. Greek Κηφισόδοτος ) is an ancient Greek sculptor who worked in Athens in the first half of the 4th century. BC e. Probably the father of Praxiteles (and thus the grandfather of Kefisodotus the Younger ).
The most famous work is a copper statue of the goddess of the world Eirena , holding in her arms a baby, the god of abundance Plutos . It was established on the Athenian Agora around 374 BC. e. on the occasion of the conclusion of peace with Sparta ; Pausanias (I 8.2; IX 16.2) is mentioned in the Description of Hellas, where its symbolic meaning is explained: the world is the mother, the nurse of plenty. A marble Roman copy of the entire statue, now in Munich Glyptothek , as well as copies of individual parts in various collections, have been preserved.
Kefisodot also sculpted another statue of an adult with a child - Hermes with a baby - Dionysus ; its images and fragment are preserved. A similar sculpture was then created by Praxiteles.
Pausanias also mentions (VIII 30.5) the marble statues made by Kefisodot for the temple of Zeus in Megalopolis .
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