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from the fire and the light thrown on the boy's face ; 

 and likewise for his Spinning-room, in which all the 

 women are busily plying their tasks, and his Ptolemy 

 Hmiting, but, most famous of all, his Satyr with 

 Leopard's Skin, called in Greek the Man Shading 

 his Eyes." Aristophon did an Ancaeus Wounded 

 by the Boar, with Astypale sharing his grief, and a 

 picture crowded with figures, among them Priam, 

 Helen, Creduhty, Odysseus, Deiphobus, Craft. 

 Androbius painted a Scyllus Cutting the Anchor- 

 ropes of the Persian Fleet,'' Artemon a Danae admired 

 by the Robbers, a Queen Stratonice,*^ and a Heracles 

 and Deianira ; but the finest of all his works, now 

 in Octavia's Buildings, are his Heracles Ascending to 

 Heaven with the consent of the Gods after his mortal 

 remains were burnt on Mount Oeta in Doris, and 

 the story of Laomedon in the matter of Heracles 

 and Posidon.'' Alcimachus painted Dioxippus, who 

 won the All-round Bout at Olympia ' without raising 

 any dust,'^ akoniti as the Greek word is. Coenus 

 painted pedigrees. 



Ctesilochus a pupil of Apelles became famous for a 

 saucy burlesque painting which showed Zeus in 

 labour/ with Dionysus, wearing a woman's nightcap 

 and crying Hke a woman, while goddesses act as 

 midwives ; Cleon for his Cadmus, Ctesidemus for his 

 Storming of Oechalia 9 and his Laodamia. Ctesicles 

 won notoriety by the insult he ofFered to Queen 

 Stratonice,^ because as she did not give him an 

 honourable reception he painted a picture of her 



to ravage the land of Troy after Hesione's father King Lao- 

 medon broke a promise. 



f I.e. without any difficulty. 



/ Dionysus was born from Zeus' thigh. 



" B3' Heracles. * See note c. 



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