person
Alcamenes
A celebrated Athenian sculptor of the fifth century BC, a pupil of Phidias. Cicero praises his statue of Vulcan at Athens, in which a slight, not unbecoming lameness shows.
Reading notes
- On the Nature of the Gods §1.83 the Vulcan at Athens that Alcamenes made
A celebrated statue of Hephaestus (Vulcan) by the Athenian sculptor Alcamenes, in which the god's slight, not unbecoming lameness was discreetly shown. Cotta cites it to mock deriving the gods' true forms from artists' conventions.