(), a painter, born in the island of Thasos, the
father and instructor of Polygnotus. (Suidas and Photius, s. v.Πολύγνωτος; Anth. Gr.
9.700.) He had another son named Aristophon. (Plat. Gorg. p. 448.
B.) As Polygnotus flourished before the 90th Ol. (Plin. Nat.
35.9. s. 35), Aglaophon probably lived about Ol. 70. Quintilian (12.10.3) praises his
paintings, which were distinguished by the simplicity of their colouring, as worthy of
admiration on other grounds besides their antiquity. There was an Aglaophon who flourished in
the 90th Ol. andmother, who were possessed of great wealth, according to Pliny (Plin. Nat. 35.9. s. 36), and his statement is confirmed by a
passage of Athenaeus (xii. p. 543, D.), from which we learn that he painted two pictures, in
one of which Olympias and Pythias, as the presiding geniuses of the Olylmpic and Pythian
games, were represented crowning Alcibiades; in the other Nemea, the presiding deity of the
Nemean games, held Alcibiades on her knees. Alcibiades could not have gained any victories
much before Ol. 91. (B. C. 416.) It is therefore exceedingly likely
that this artist was the son of Aristophon, and grandson of the older Aglaophon, as among the
Greeks the son generally bore the name not of his father but of his grandfather. Plutarch
(Plut. Alc. 16) says, that Aristophon was the author of the
picture of Nemea and Alcibiades. He may perhaps have assisted his son. This Aglaophon was,
according to some, the first who represented Victory with wings. (Schol. ad Aristoph. Birds 573.)