Ctesilochus

Ctesilochus (fl. 4th century BCE) was a painter of ancient Greece. He was the pupil and perhaps brother of the much more renowned painter Apelles.

Ctesilochus was known primarily by a ludicrous, parodical picture representing the birth of Bacchus.^[1][2] This stood out even to the ancients as a somewhat unusual choice of subject.^[3]

Notes

1. Pliny the Elder, Natural History 35.40.33
2. Suda, s. v. Ἀπελλῆς
3. Trendall, A. Dale (1934). "A Volute Krater at Taranto". The Journal of Hellenic Studies. 54 (2). The Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies: 175–179. doi:10.2307/626859. JSTOR 626859. S2CID 161873074.

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Urlichs, Ludwig (1870). "Ctesilochus". In Smith, William (ed.). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Vol. 1. p. 900.