Sosicles

Sosicles may refer to:

Moschus has twin sons, Menaechmus and Sosicles.

According to the true reading of Suidas, Sosicles is simply mentioned as the father of the tragic poet Sosiphanes.

Their father dies of sorrow and their grandfather changes Sosicles' name to Menaechmus (i.e., Menaechmus of Syracuse).

What is more likely is Herodotus using Sosicles to give an extended speech on the fault of tyranny and also to give a digression into Corinth's history.

Sosicles remonstrated with indignant vehemence against the measure, and set forth the evils which Corinth had endured under the successive tyrannies of Cypselus and Periander.

This type is known principally from the 2.02 m high 2nd century AD marble copy (signed by Sosicles), deriving from Polyclitus's or Kresilas's original.

Sosicles was mentioned by Fabricius, on the authority of the Suda and Eudocia, as a tragic poet of the time of Philip and Alexander the Great.

It was (before and after Sosicles's time) copied as a complete statue, as a bust or as a herm, both in stone in the same size as the original and in miniature in bronze.

Sosicles was a Corinthian ambassador at the remarkable meeting of the allies of Sparta at around 500 BC, before which the Spartans laid their proposal for restoring Hippias to the tyranny of Athens.