A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology

Smith, William

A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology. William Smith, LLD, ed. 1890

a painter mentioned by Pliny. (H. N. 35.11. s. 40.) He is not spoken of by any other writer, and all that is known about him is, that he painted a picture of Dioxippus, a victor in the pancratium at Olympia.

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Dioxippus lived in the time of Alexander the Great. (Aelian, Ael. VH 10.22; Diod. 17.100 ; Athen. 6.251a.) Alcimachus therefore probaby lived about the same time.

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