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AETION, or EETION

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Originally appearing in Volume V01, Page 298 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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AETION, or EETION , a See also:Greek painter, mentioned by See also:Cicero, See also:Pliny and See also:Lucian. His most noted See also:work, described in detail by Lucian (See also:Herodotus or Eetion, 5), was a picture representing the See also:marriage of See also:Alexander and See also:Roxana. He is said to have exhibited it at the Olympic See also:games, and by it so to have won the favour of the See also:president that he gave him his daughter in marriage. Though a misunderstanding of the words of Lucian, Aetion has been supposed to belong to the See also:age of the Antonines; but there can be little doubt that he was a contemporary of Alexander and of See also:Apelles (See also:Brunn, Geschichte der griechischen Kiinstler, ii. p. 243). Pliny gives his date as 350 B.C.

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