Leo'chares

Leo'chares, one of the most distinguished sculptors of the Attic school of the 4th century B.C., was a pupil of Scopas, and Pliny ascribes to him the sculptures on the west side of the Mausoleum (q.v.). He was one of the privileged artists who were permitted to make portraits of Alexander the Great. Three statues of Zeus are known to have been executed by him. His 'Ganymede carried off by an Eagle' was famous throughout the ancient world. In collaboration with Lysippus he produced a colossal group in bronze, which represented Alexander at a lion-hunt, while he himself was responsible for chryselephantine statues of Alexander and his family. The works of Leochaes are all lost, but there is a copy of the Ganymede in the Vatican; and a bust of Alexander may be a copy of one of his.