Polygnotus
Family: historical · Role: painter · First appears: Book 1 · Chapter 18
In Book 1, Chapter 18, Polygnotus painted the marriage of Leucippus’s daughters. By Chapter 22, his paintings included Achilles living at Scyrus among the maidens and Odysseus appearing before Nausicaa and her maids as they bathed in the river.
In Book 10, Chapter 27, Polygnotus is identified as the son of Aglaophon and as the painter of the incidents being described. In the following chapters, he represented Charon as old and painted Camiro and Clytie crowned with flowers and playing dice. Chapter 31 says that he followed Archilochus’s account.
Relationship record
Book 1 · Chapter 18
- with Leucippus (Polygnotus painted a scene concerning the marriage of Leucippus's daughters.) “Here too is a painting by Polygnotus of the marriage of the daughters of Leucippus”
Book 1 · Chapter 22
- with Achilles (interaction) “of Achilles having lived at Scyrus among the maidens, which Polygnotus has painted”
- with Odysseus (interaction) “who has also painted Odysseus suddenly making his appearance as Nausicaa and her maids were bathing in the river, just as Homer has described it.”
- with Nausicaa (interaction) “who has also painted Odysseus suddenly making his appearance as Nausicaa and her maids were bathing in the river, just as Homer has described it.”
Book 9 · Chapter 4
- with Odysseus (Polygnotus painted a scene depicting Odysseus.) “And there are paintings in the temple by Polygnotus, Odysseus having just slain the suitors,”
Book 10 · Chapter 27
- parent: Aglaophon “Polygnotus of Thasos, the son of Aglaophon, painted these incidents”
Book 10 · Chapter 28
- with Charon (Polygnotus represented Charon in the painting.) “Polygnotus has accordingly represented Charon as old.”
Book 10 · Chapter 30
- with Camiro (interaction) “And Polygnotus has painted them crowned with flowers, and playing with dice.”
- with Clytie (interaction) “And Polygnotus has painted them crowned with flowers, and playing with dice.”
Book 10 · Chapter 31
- with Archilochus (Polygnotus followed Archilochus's account.) “It is plain that Polygnotus followed the account of Archilochus: but I do not know whether Archilochus invented the addition to the legend about the stone, or merely related what he had heard from others.”
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Extracted from the original text of Pausanias' Description of Greece. Made with Rho MD.