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Agatharchus

500 BC - 460 BC

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Agatharchus or Agatharch (Ancient Greek: Ἀγάθαρχος) was a self-taught painter from Samos, who lived in the 5th century BC. His father was named Eudemos (Εὔδημος). He is said by Vitruvius to have invented scenic painting, and to have painted a scene (scenam fecit) for a tragedy which Aeschylus exhibited. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Agatharchus has received more than 41,089 page views. His biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia. Agatharchus is the 782nd most popular painter (down from 666th in 2019), the 410th most popular biography from Greece (down from 370th in 2019) and the 5th most popular Greek Painter.

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Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Agatharchus ranks 782 out of 2,023. Before him are Jan Dirksz Both, François-André Vincent, Jacob Philipp Hackert, Władysław Strzemiński, Ramon Casas, and Juan de Valdés Leal. After him are Xia Gui, Karel Dujardin, Emanuel de Witte, Bartolomeo Montagna, Yun Shouping, and Jean Metzinger.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 500 BC, Agatharchus ranks 49. Before him are Cephisodotus the Elder, Perictione, Cebes, Chabrias, Telesilla, and Sophron. After him are Antalcidas, Calamis, Callimachus, Agoracritus, Metrodorus of Chios, and Hyperbolus. Among people deceased in 460 BC, Agatharchus ranks 12. Before him are Hippo, Paeonius, Pharnabazus II, Diagoras of Rhodes, Telesilla, and Sophron. After him are Calamis, Callimachus, Apollodorus, Gylippus, Achaemenes, and Thrasybulus of Syracuse.

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In Greece

Among people born in Greece, Agatharchus ranks 410 out of 1,024. Before him are Podalirius (null), Theodorus Gaza (1398), Dimitrios Ioannidis (1923), Onesicritus (-360), Joseph II of Constantinople (1360), and Telesilla (-500). After him are Phaedon Gizikis (1917), Pavlos, Crown Prince of Greece (1967), Antalcidas (-500), Asclepigenia (400), Vassilis Vassilikos (1933), and Eleni Karaindrou (1941).

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Among PAINTERS In Greece

Among painters born in Greece, Agatharchus ranks 5. Before him are El Greco (1541), Giorgio de Chirico (1888), Nikolaos Gyzis (1842), and Jannis Kounellis (1936). After him are Achilles Painter (-470), Apollodorus (-500), Douris (-600), Timarete (-420), Pamphilus (-390), Euphranor (-301), and Nikiforos Lytras (1832).

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