# Canachus

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Sculptor of Sicyon in Corinthia

**Canachus** ([Ancient Greek](/source/Ancient_Greek_language): Κάναχος *Kanakhos*) was a [sculptor](/source/Sculpture) of [Sicyon](/source/Sicyon) in [Corinthia](/source/Corinthia), in the latter part of the 6th century BCE. He was especially noted as the author of two great statues of [Apollo](/source/Apollo), one in [bronze](/source/Bronze) made for the temple at [Didyma](/source/Didyma) near [Miletus](/source/Miletus), and one in [cedar](/source/Cedrus) wood made for [Thebes](/source/Thebes_(Greece)). The coins of Miletus furnish us with copies of the former and show the god to have held a stag in one hand and a bow in the other. The rigidity of these works naturally impressed later critics.[1]

Sculptures of two Spartan soldiers who fought at the [Battle of Aegospotami](/source/Battle_of_Aegospotami) were attributed to Canachus by Pausanias. These sculptures were probably the work of his namesake grandson, [Canachus the Younger](/source/Canachus_the_Younger)[2]

## References

1. **[^](#cite_ref-1)** One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the [public domain](/source/Public_domain): [Chisholm, Hugh](/source/Hugh_Chisholm), ed. (1911). "[Canachus](https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/1911_Encyclop%C3%A6dia_Britannica/Canachus)". *[Encyclopædia Britannica](/source/Encyclop%C3%A6dia_Britannica_Eleventh_Edition)*. Vol. 5 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 142.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-2)** [Ihne, William](/source/William_Ihne) (1870). "Canachus". In [Smith, William](/source/William_Smith_(lexicographer)) (ed.). *[Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology](/source/Dictionary_of_Greek_and_Roman_Biography_and_Mythology)*. Vol. I. p. 593.

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