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Almost a mythical person, a former slave, writer of a fables collection, which have influenced children’s education since the antiquity until contemporary times due to their inspirational content. |
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Agasias, Son of Menophilus |
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Sculptor of the early 1st century BC from Ephesus. One of the most important representatives of the Late Hellenistic figurative sculpture. The only works that can be attributed to him come from Delos and Tenos. |
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Lyric poet from Teos (c. 570-485 BC). Only fragments of his verse, which was in praise of love and symposium and influenced the poetry of the Hellenistic and Roman period, have survived. He lived at the court of Polycrates of Samos and later near Hipparchus in Athens. He died very old in Athens or Teos after he had previously visited Thessaly. |
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Apaturius was a painter who was active during the 1st cent. BC. He was born in Alabanda of Caria and specialized in theatre scene-painting. |
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Painter from Ephesus or Kos who flourished in the second half of the 4th c. BC. He studied under Pamphilus of Amphipolis and later travelled to Macedonia, where he met Alexander the Great and followed him to Asia. According to the sources, he was the best painter of Antiquity and had the exclusive privilege of painting the Macedonian king. |
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Sculptor from Priene. The renowned work of art ‘Apotheosis of Homer’, which was probably created in Pergamon in the third quarter of the 2nd century BC, is attributed to him. |
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Sculptor and architect of the mid 6th c. BC from Magnesia ad Maeandrum. The famous throne of Apollo at Amyclae in Laconia was his creation. |
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