a distinguished Greek painter, was a native of Sicyon, and flourished in the fourth century B.C. His training was received under very favourable circumstances. He learned his first lessons in art from his father Brietes; he was then subjected to the thorough educational system of Pamphilus; and at the same time he was the fellow-disciple of such artists as Melanthius and Apelles. Accordingly his professional career was marked by surpassing excellence. He brought the art of painting in encaustic with the cerasum to an unprecedented pitch of perfection. By him was introduced the custom of decorating the walls and ceilings of private apartments with historical representations. He was also remarkable for his successful imitations of nature, and for his skill in foreshortening, as the portrait of "Glycera the Flower-Girl," and the picture of the "Ox about to be Sacrificed," sufficiently testified.