 A papyrus from Oxyrhyncus gives dates of victors at Olympia of whom Myron made statues of the athlete Timanthes, victorious at Olympia in 456 BC, and of Lycinus, victorious in 448 BC and 444 BC.This helps us to fix his date.He was a contemporary, but a somewhat older contemporary, of Pheidias and Polykleitos.