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Evanthes, the painter

PELUSIUM (Ancient city) EGYPT
Evanthes, (Euanthes), a painter of unknown date, two of whose pictures, in the temple of Zeus Casius at Pelusium, are described very minutely, and with great affectation, by Achilles Tatius (iii. 6-8). The subjects of them were, the release of Andromeda by Perseus, and the release of Prometheus by Heracles. (Comp. Lucian, de Domo, 22; Philostr. Imag. i. 29.) Both subjects are represented on existing works of art in a manner similar to that of the pictures of Evanthes. (Muller, Arch. d. Kunst, § 396. n. 2.414, n. 3; Pitt. Ere. iv. 7, 61; Mus. Borb. v. 32, vi. 50, ix. 39; Gell, Pomp. pl. 42.)

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