Chap. 40.] PAIXTERS IN ENCAUSTIC. 2/9 



picture of his representing Jupiter in labour with Bacchus/ 

 with a mitra- on his head, and crying like a woman in the 

 midst of the goddesses, who are acting as midwives. Cleon 

 distinguished himself by his Cadmus ; and Ctesidemus, by his 

 Capture of CEchalia^ and his Laodamia. 



Ctesicles became notorious for the insult which he offered 

 to Queen Stratonice;* for, upon failing to meet with an 

 honourable reception from her, he painted her, romping with 

 a fisherman, for whom, according to common report, she had 

 conceived an ardent affection. After exhibiting this picture 

 in the harbour at Ephesus, he at once set sail and escaped : 

 the queen, however, would not allow of its removal, the like- 

 nesses of the two figures being so admirably expressed. Cra- 

 tinus,^ the comic writer, painted at Athens, in the Pompeion^ 

 there. 



Of Eutychides, there is a Yictory guiding a chariot drawn by 

 two horses. Eudorus is famous for his dramatic scenery ; he 

 executed some statues in bronze also. By Hippys there is a 

 T^Teptune and Yictory. Habron painted a picture of Friend- 

 ship and Concord, and several figures of divinities ; Leontiscus, 

 an Ai'atus with the trophies of victory,''' and a Singing-girl ; 

 Leon, a portrait of Sappho ; and Nearchus, a Venus attended 

 by Cupids and Graces, and a Hercules, sorrowing and repentant 

 at the sad results of his madness.^ ISTealces,'* a remarkably 

 ingenious and inventive artist, painted a Venus. On one oc- 

 casion, when he had to represent a naval engagement between 

 the Persians and Egyptians, wishing it to be understood that 



' "Who was said to have been born from the thigh of Jove. 



2 Or cap ; see Chapter 35 of tliis liook. 



3 By Hercules, when he demanded lole of hrr father Eurytus, king of 

 (Echalia. * See Note 94 above. 



^ Several Cratini were distinguished as Comic writers, but we do not 

 read in any other author of any one of them being a painter. The reading 

 is doubtful. 



^ A building at the entrance into Athens, whence the " pompa," or 

 solemn processions, set out. 



"' Hardouin thinks that this was the victory gained by Aratus of Sicyon 

 over Aristippus, tbe Tyrant of Argos. If so, Leontiscus must have flourished 

 about Olymp. 136. 



s Caused by the anger of Juno. In this fit of insanity be slew bis wife 

 Megara and her children. 



9 See also Chapter 36. From Plutarch wo learn that be was greatly iu 

 favour with Aratus of Sicyon. 



