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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 39,017 page views. His biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia. Agatharchus is the 667th most popular painter (down from 481st in 2019), the 370th most popular biography from Greece (down from 295th in 2019) and the 4th most popular Greek Painter.

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  • 23

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 9.50

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Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Agatharchus ranks 667 out of 1,421. Before him are Louis-Michel van Loo, Toyen, Nikolai Ge, Peter Nicolai Arbo, Andrew Wyeth, and Raja Ravi Varma. After him are Cassandre, Donald Judd, Johann Heinrich Wilhelm Tischbein, Narcisse Virgilio Díaz, Nadežda Petrović, and Giovanni Pietro Bellori.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 500 BC, Agatharchus ranks 45. Before him are Hermocrates, Diagoras of Rhodes, Perictione, Theagenes of Thasos, Callicratidas, and Corax of Syracuse. After him are Telesilla, Cebes, Hippo, Cephisodotus the Elder, Calamis, and Apollodorus. Among people deceased in 460 BC, Agatharchus ranks 7. Before him are Ajatashatru, Mnesikles, Parrhasius, Paeonius, Pharnabazus II, and Diagoras of Rhodes. After him are Telesilla, Hippo, Calamis, Apollodorus, Callimachus, and Gylippus.

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In Greece

Among people born in Greece, Agatharchus ranks 370 out of 936. Before him are Polemon (-400), Callicratidas (-500), Dexippus (210), Miltiades the Elder (-600), Theopompus of Sparta (-800), and Eupolis (-446). After him are Gregory V of Constantinople (1745), Ion of Chios (-490), Philo of Larissa (-145), Telesilla (-500), Princess Marina of Greece and Denmark (1906), and Isaac Carasso (1874).

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Among PAINTERS In Greece

Among painters born in Greece, Agatharchus ranks 4. Before him are El Greco (1541), Giorgio de Chirico (1888), and Jannis Kounellis (1936). After him are Apollodorus (-500), Nikolaos Gyzis (1842), Euphranor (-301), Achilles Painter (-470), Amasis Painter (-550), Nikiforos Lytras (1832), Yannis Tsarouchis (1910), and Thalia Flora-Karavia (1871).

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