5th century, male.
Active at the beginning of the 5th century BC.
Born to a family originally from Cnossus.
Sculptor in bronze.
Ancient Greek.
Acestor is believed to be the father of Amphion, who was sometimes - though wrongly - credited with the Delphic Charioteer...
3rd century, male.
Active in Argos.
Sculptor.
Ancient Greek.
Acestor worked in collaboration with Toron, son of Apellion, also from Argos, on a votive statue from Troezen.
Name given to a people of Persian origin, who founded an empire that flourished c. 550–331
The Achaemenid Persian empire was founded c. 550
This vast Persian hegemony was rich in legacies of administrative expertise and cultural heritage. Its dynastic name was derived from an 8th-century
5th century, male.
Active between 460 and 430 BC.
Painter.
Ancient Greek.
The Achilles Painter is named for his depictions of Achilles, particularly that on an amphora in the Vatican where the hero is shown armed with a lance and wearing a cuirass. He is depicted standing alone, while on the other side of the amphora is a female figure. This way of presenting single figures, one on either side of a vase, can be compared to the work of the Berlin Painter and initially had a very strong influence on the Achilles Painter. The rather exaggerated anatomical details of the early nudes is borrowed from the Berlin Painter....
[It.: ‘red water’]
Modern name of an Etruscan settlement near Viterbo, Italy. It is situated on a small tufa plateau bounded on three sides by streams, one of which runs red. Excavations conducted by the Swedish Institute of Classical Studies during the 1960s and 1970s uncovered the tufa foundations of buildings that comprised various sectors of an ancient town. These provide some of the most extensive archaeological evidence relating to Etruscan domestic architecture and urban organization. The site was already inhabited in the 8th century
5th century, male.
Active in the second half of the 5th century BC.
Born to a family originally from Selinus (Selinunte), Sicily.
Sculptor.
Ancient Greek.
Acron's name appears at Delphi on a base for two statues ( Asclepius and Hygieia?) offered by Philistion, a devotee of Asclepius. The inscription dates from before 400 BC....
Prehistoric site in North America. It is the largest of several mounds along the Scioto River north of Chillicothe, OH. Although it is the eponym of the Early Woodland-period Adena culture of the Upper Ohio River Valley (c. 1000–c. 100
6th century, male.
Active in Attica in the first quarter of the 6th century BC.
Sculptor.
Ancient Greek.
Aesopus' name, together with a reference to his brothers, was found in Attic characters on a base from Sigea in the Troad (the area around Troy).
4th century, male.
Painter. Historical subjects, peopled scenes, genre scenes.
Ancient Greek.
Probably Ionian, Aetion was active in the second half of the 4th century BC. Lucian describes one of his paintings representing the Marriage of Alexander and Roxane, princess of Sogdiana. The Aldobrandini frescoes may relate to this work. Lucian's text inspired Sodoma (or Raphael ?) to paint the same subject. According to Pliny, who indicates that the artist also worked in bronze, Aetion also painted an ...
(fl late 4th century
Greek painter. Pliny (Natural History, XXXV.78) placed Aetion in the 107th Olympiad (352–349
5th century, male.
Active in Athens in the second half of the 5th century BC.
Sculptor.
Ancient Greek, Classical Period.
Living at Alopeke (near Athens), Agathanor was a foreigner recorded as having received payment for work on the friezes of the Erechtheum in 408-407 BC....
(fl late 5th century
Greek painter. He was the son of Eudemos and came originally from Samos, but worked in Athens; none of his work survives. He was said to be self-taught. Vitruvius (On Architecture VII.praef.11) claimed that Agatharchos was the first artist to paint a stage set on wooden panels. This was for a tragedy by Aeschylus (525/4–456
4th century, male.
Sculptor.
Ancient Greek.
Agatharchus is known from a signature from Thasos (dedication to Pan and Aphrodite).
5th century, male.
Painter. Historical subjects.
Ancient Greek, Classical Period.
Agatharchus was a Samian painter working in Athens in the second half of the 5th century BC, at the time of Pericles. He is thought to have painted a skene (backdrop) for Aeschylus' play Seven against Thebes...
4th century, male.
Wrongly described as a sculptor.
Ancient Greek.
Agathinus is known from a signature on the marble tree trunk supporting a now-lost statue from Privernum.
5th century, male.
Vase painter.
Ancient Greek.
The
3rd century, male.
Sculptor.
Ancient Greek.
A scene bearing Agathon's signature and showing the priest Aristis worshipping Horus, dating from around 250 BC, was found between the temples of Apollo and Isis at Cyrene.
