Heraclides (painter)

Heraclides (painter)

Heraclides or Heracleides (Greek: polytonic|Ἡρακλείδης) was a Macedonian painter, who was at first merely a marine painter of sea and ships, but afterwards acquired some distinction as a painter in encaustic. He lived in the time of Perseus, after whose fall he went to Athens (168 BC).

References

* [http://www.ancientlibrary.com/smith-bio/1498.html 4 Heraclides artists] Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology.
*Natural History (Pliny) xxxv. 11. s. 40. §§ 30, 42.


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