BOOK XXXV. xL. 130-132 



Contemporaries of Euphranor were Cydias, for Cydias. 

 whose picture of the Argonauts the orator Hortensius 114-50 b.o. 

 paid 144,000 sesterces, and made a shrine for its 

 reception at his vllla at Tusculum. Euphranor's 

 pupil was Antidotus. Works by the latter are a Antidoius 

 Combatant "with a Shield at Athens and a Wrestler 

 and a Trumpeter which has been exceptionally 

 praised. Antidotus himself was more careful in his 

 work than prolific, and severe in his use of colours ; 

 his chief distinction was being the teacher of the 

 Athenian Nicias, who was an extremely careful ^'icias 

 painter of female portraits. Nicias kept a strict ^ 'J^^"^^^'- 

 watch on Hght and shade, and took the greatest pains 

 to make his paintings stand out from the panels. 

 Works of his are : a Nemea, brought to Rome from 75 b.c. 

 Asia by Silanus and deposited in the Senate-house as 

 we have said, and also the Father Liber or Dionysus § 27. 

 in the Shrine of Concord, a Hyacinthus with which 

 Caesar Augustus was so delighted that when he took 30 b.c. 

 Alexandria he brought it back with him — and 

 consequently Tiberius Caesar dedicated this picture 

 in the Temple ° of Augustus — and a Danae ; while at 

 Ephesus there is the tomb of a megabyzus or priest 

 of Diana of Ephesus, and at Athens there is a 

 Necyomantea ^ of Homer. The last the artist 

 refused to sell to King Attalus ^ for 60 talents, and 

 preferred to present it to his native place, as he 

 was a wealthy man. He also executed some large 

 pictures, among them a Calypso, an lo^ and an 

 Andromeda ; and also the very fine Alexander in 

 Pompey's Porticoes and a Seated Calypso are as- 

 signed to him. 



"^ One or two extant later paintings mav be copies of this. 

 A. Rumpf, Journ. Hellen. St., LXVII, 21 / 



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