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Paraskevopoulos Leonidas

, , 1860 - 1936

Cydias

Cydias (Kudias). A painter, born in the island of Cythnus, one of the Cyclades, and who flourished B.C. 360. Hortensius, the orator, purchased his painting of the Argonauts for 144,000 sesterces (nearly $5800). This same work was afterwards transferred by Agrippa to the portico of Neptune.

Perseus: Harry Thurston Peck, Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898)
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