Aristophon (painter)

Aristophon was a Greek painter, mentioned by Pliny the Elder.

Aristophon was the son and pupil of the elder Aglaophon, and brother of Polygnotus. He was a native of Thasos. Pliny, who places him among the painters of the second rank, mentions two works by him: one showing Ancaeus wounded by the boar and mourned over by his mother Astypalaea, and another containing figures of Priam, Helen, Ulysses, Deiphobus, Dolon, and Credulitas.^[1]

Plutarch names Aristophon as the painter of a picture of Alcibiades in the arms of Nemea;^[2] Athenaeus however says it was by Aglaophon.^[3]

Verdegem, Simon (2010). Plutarch's Life of Alcibiades: Story; Text and Moralism. Leuven University Press. ISBN 9789058677600.

•  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Bryan, Michael (1886). "Aristophon". In Graves, Robert Edmund (ed.). Bryan's Dictionary of Painters and Engravers (A–K). Vol. I (3rd ed.). London: George Bell & Sons.