Alcisthene

Alcisthene or Alkisthene (Greek: Αλκισθένη) may have been a female painter mentioned by Pliny the Elder,[1] in a list of notable female painters.[2][3] 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.[4]

References
  1. Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia xxxv. 11. s. 40
  2. Mason, Charles Peter (1867). "Alcis (1)". In William Smith (ed.). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Vol. 1. Boston: Little, Brown and Company. p. 104. Archived from the original on November 11, 2013.
  3. Samson, George Whitefield (1876). Elements of Art Criticism. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott & Co. p. 582.
  4. Pliny the Elder. Naturalis Historia.

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Smith, William, ed. (1870). "Alcis (1)". Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology.


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