The New International Encyclopædia/Andronicus (Cyrrhestes)

ANDRONICUS (Gk. Ἀνδρόνικος, Andronikos), also called Cyrrhestes, from his birthplace, Cyrrhus, in Syria. A Greek architect, who erected the so-called Tower of the Winds at Athens, a building dating from the first century B.C. This tower was an octagonal structure, made of Pentelic marble and surmounted by a figure of Triton, which moved with the wind and pointed to the direction from which the wind came. On the eight sides of the tower were sculptured in relief figures representing the eight principal winds, and beneath these was a sun-dial. The interior contained a water-clock. In the Middle Ages this structure was called “The Lantern of Demosthenes.”