Ctesilochus

Ctesilochus (fl. 4th century BCE) was a painter of ancient Greece. He was the pupil and perhaps brother of the much more renowned painter Apelles.

Ctesilochus was known primarily by a ludicrous, parodical picture representing the birth of Bacchus. ^{[1] [2]} This stood out even to the ancients as a somewhat unusual choice of subject. ^[3]

Notes

1. Pliny the Elder, Natural History 35.40.33
2. Suda, s. v. Ἀπελλῆς
3. Trendall, A. Dale (1934). "A Volute Krater at Taranto". The Journal of Hellenic Studies . 54 (2). The Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies: 175–179. doi:10.2307/626859. JSTOR   626859. S2CID   161873074.

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain :  Urlichs, Ludwig (1870). "Ctesilochus". In Smith, William (ed.). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology . Vol. 1. p. 900.