BOOK XXXV. XXXVI. 74-77 



with a wand. Indeed Timanthes is the only artist 

 in whose works more is always implied than is 

 depicted, and whose execution, though consummate, 

 is ahvays surpassed by his genius. He painted a 

 hero w^hich is a work of supreme perfection, in which 

 he has included the whole art of painting male 

 tlgures ; this work is now in the Temple of Peace in 

 Rome. 



It was at this period that Euxinidas had as his Eupompiu 

 pupil the famous artist Aristides,'^ that Eupompus ^amphUu.^ 

 taught Pamphilus who was the instructor of Apelles. 

 A work of Eupompus is a Winner in a Gymnastic 

 Contest holding a Palm branch. Eupompus's own 

 influence was so powerful that he made a fresh division 

 of painting ; it had previously been divided into tw^o 

 schools, called the Helladic or Grecian and the 

 Asiatic, but because of Eupompus, who was a 

 Sicyonian, the Grecian school was sub-divided into 

 three groups, the lonic, Sicyonian and Attic. To 

 Pamphilus belong Family Group, and a Battle at 

 Phlius and a Victory of the Athenians,^ and also 

 Odysseus on his Raft. He was himself a Macedonian 

 by birth, but <w^as brought up at Sicyon, and) was 

 the first painter highly educated in all branches of 

 learning, especially arithmetic and geometry, with- 

 out the aid of which he maintained art could not 

 attain perfection. He took no pupils at a lower fee 

 than a talent, at the rate of 500 drachmae per annum,'^ 

 and this was paid him by both Apelles and Melanthius. 

 It was brought about by his influence, first at Sicyon 

 and then in the whole of Greece as well, that children 



376, or the defeat of Sicyonians by Phliasians and Athenians in 

 367 B.c. The painting may have represented the last event only. 

 "= So that the course of study could last 12 years. 



