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AGATHARCHIDES, or AGATHARCHUS

This article appears in Volume V01, Page 370 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: ADA-AIZ
AGATHARCHIDES, or AGATHARCHUS , of Cnidus, Greek historian and geographer, lived in the time of
Ptolemy
  Philometor (181146 B.C.) and his successors. Amongst other works, he wrote
treatises
  on
Asia
 , Europe and The Red Sea. Interesting extracts from the last, of some length, are preserved in
Photius
  (cod. 213), who praises the style of the author, which waswriters know nothing of canvas scenes; the background painted by Agatharchus was the wooden front of the stage building, and it was painted, not with reference to any particular play, but as a permanent decorative background, representing no doubt a palace or temple. Agatharchus is said to have been seized by Alcibiades and compelled by him to paint the interior of his
house
 , which shows that at the time (about 435 B.C.) decorative
painting
  of rooms was the fashion.


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