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]

  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.