Alcisthene
Alcisthene or Alkisthene may have been a female painter mentioned by Pliny the Elder, in a list of notable female painters. In the Latin text, however, the name Alcisthenes seems to refer instead to a dancer (saltator) who is the subject of a painting by Irene daughter of the painter Cratinus.
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Alcisthene
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Alcisthene is a painter.
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- 1.Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia xxxv. 11. s. 40
- 2.Mason, Charles Peter. Alcis (1). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Little, Brown and Company. 1. 104. 1867.
- 3.Samson, George Whitefield. Elements of Art Criticism. J. B. Lippincott & Co. 582. 1876.
- 4.Pliny the Elder. Naturalis Historia.
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