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In drawings of animals he was most successful with 

 dogs. It is this Nicias of whom Praxiteles used to yidastfu 

 say, when asked which of his own works in marble ^ " 

 he placed highest, ' The ones to which Nicias has set 

 his hand ' — so much value did he assign to his colour- 

 ing of surfaces." It is not quite clear whether it 

 is another artist of the same name or this Nicias 

 whom some people put in the 112th Olympiad. .",32-329 b.c. 



With Nicias is compared Athenion of Maronea, Athenion. 

 and sometimes to the disadvantage of the former. 

 Athenion was a pupil of Glaucion of Corinth ; he is 

 more sombre in his colour than Nicias and yet 

 therewithal more pleasing, so that his extensive 

 knowledge shines out in his actual painting. He 

 painted a Cavalry Captain in the temple at Eleusis 

 and at Athens the group of figures which has been 

 called the Family Group, and also an Achilles Dis- 

 guised in Female Dress detected by Odysseus, a 

 group of six figures in a single picture, and a Groom 

 with a Horse, which has specially contributed to his 

 fame. If he had not died in youth, there would 

 have been nobody to compare with him. 



Heraclides of Macedon is also a painter of note. HeracUdes. 

 He began by painting ships, and after the capture of ^^^^ 

 King Perseus he migrated to Athens, where at the 

 same period was the painter Metrodorus, who was 

 also a philosopher and a great authority in both 

 fields. Accordingly when Lucius Paulus after con- 

 quering Perseus requested the Athenians to send 

 him their most esteemed philosopher to educate his 

 children, and also a painter to embellish his triumphal 

 procession, the Athenians selected Metrodorus, 

 stating that he was most distinguished in both of 

 these requirements alike, as to which Paulus also 



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