'''Alcamenes''' was a Greek [[Sculpture|sculptor]] of [[Lemnos]] and [[Athens]].

He was a younger contemporary of [[Pheidias]] and noted for the delicacy and finish of his works, among which a [[Hephaestus]] and an [[Aphrodite]] "of the Gardens" were conspicuous.

[[Pausanias (geographer)|Pausanias]] says (v. 10. 8) that he was the author of one of the pediments of the temple of [[Zeus]] at [[Olympia, Greece|Olympia]], but this seems a chronological and stylistic impossibility. Pausanias (I, 8, 4), also refers to a statue of Ares by Alcamenes that was erected on the [[Athenian agora]], which some have related to the [[Ares Borghese]]. However, the temple of Ares to which he refers had only been moved from [[Acharnes]] and re-sited in the Agora in [[Augustus]]'s time, and statues known to derive from Alcamenes' statue show the god in a [[breastplate]] (one is depicted [http://cartelen.louvre.fr/cartelen/visite?srv=car_not_frame&idNotice=20221 in this relief]), so the identification of Alcamenes' Ares with the Ares Borghese is not secure.

At [[Pergamum]] there was discovered in 1903 a Hellenistic copy of the head of the Hermes "Propylaeus" of Alcamenes (''Athenische Mittheilungen'', 1904, p. 180). As, however, the deity is represented in an [[Neo-Attic]], archaistic and conventional character, this copy cannot be relied on as giving us much information as to the usual style of Alcamenes, who was almost certainly a progressive and original artist.

It is safer to judge him by the sculptural decoration of the [[Parthenon]], in which he must almost certainly have taken a share under the direction of Pheidias.

He is said to be the most eminent sculptor in [[Athens]] after the departure of Pheidias for [[Olympia, Greece|Olympia]], but enigmatic in that none of the sculptures associated with his name in classical literature can be securely connected with existing copies.

==References==
*Andrew Stewart, ''One hundred Greek Sculptors : Their Careers and Extant Works'' ([http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/ptext?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.04.0008%3Ahead%3D%2333 on-line])
*{{1911}}

==External links==
{{Commonscat|Alcamenes}}
*[http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/vor?lang=en&full=0&alts=1&group=typecat&lookup=Alcamenes Acamenes]

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[[Category:5th century BC Greek sculptors]]
[[Category:Ancient Athenians]]
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