Deinomenes was a sculptor listed by Pliny the Elder as one of the most celebrated brass sculptors and dates him as flourishing in the 95th Olympiad, B. C. 400.[1] Pliny credits him with the creation of two sculptures: the first is of Protesilaus - a figure from the Iliad believed to be the first Greek to die at Troy. The second was of a wrestler named Pythodemus.[2] He was also responsible for two statues located in the Acropolis in the lifetime of Pausanias. The statues are of Io and Callisto.[3]
Tatian mentions him disparagingly in his Oratio ad Graecos, attributing to him a statue of Besantis, queen of the Paeonians, whom Tatian treats as a historical figure, but who was probably mythical.[4] [5] [6] His name also appears on the base of another statue from the Acropolis, crediting him as the sculptor, but the statue itself is lost.[7] [8]