Paeonius
（
Παιώνιος).
1.
A Greek sculptor of Mendé in Thrace. About B.C. 436 he was employed in the
decoration of the temple of Zeus in Olympia. According to Pausanias (v. 10 6), he was the
sculptor of the marble groups in the front, or eastern, pediment of the temple, representing
the preparations for the chariot-race between Pelops and Oenomaüs. (See
Olympia.) Important portions of these have been brought
to light by German excavators. He was also the sculptor of the figure of Niké,
more than life-size, dedicated by the Messenians (Pausan. v. 26 1), which has been restored
to us by the same means. With the exception of the head, it is in fairly good
preservation.
2.
See
Eutropius.
3.
An architert of Ephesus who, with Demetrius, completed the great temple of Artemis in that
city. With Daphnis, a Milesian, he began the so-called Didymaeum or temple of Apollo Didymus
at Miletus—a structure, however, which was never finished (
Herod.vi. 19; Pausan. vii. 5, 4). See
Ephesus.
