Cydias

Cydias, a native of Cythnus, who was living in B.C. 364, may be presumed to have been a painter of considerable ability, as one of his pictures, representing 'Jason and his followers embarking for Colchis, in search of the Golden Fleece,' was purchased at Rome by the orator Hortensius for forty-four thousand sesterces, and was afterwards bought by Marcus Agrippa, and placed in the Porticus of Neptune to commemorate his naval victories. Cydias also was allegedly commissioned a painting of Argo constructing his vessel by Quintus, but it was never completed.

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This article incorporates text from the article "Cydias" in Bryan's Dictionary of Painters and Engravers by Michael Bryan, edited by Robert Edmund Graves and Sir Walter Armstrong, an 1886-1889 publication now in the public domain.

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Name	Cydias
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