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Headword:
Polugnôtos
Adler number: pi,1948
Translated headword: Polygnotos, Polygnotus
Vetting Status: high
Translation: This man was a skilled painter, of Thasian nationality, a son and pupil of Aglaophon, who secured Athenian citizenship either because he painted the Stoa Poikile free of charge or, as some [say], the pictures in the Theseion[1] and the Anakeion.
Greek Original:Polugnôtos: houtos zôgraphos men ên tên technên, Thasios de to genos, huios de kai mathêtês Aglaophôntos, tuchôn de tês Athênaiôn politeias, ê epei tên Poikilên stoan anegrapse proika, ê hôs enioi, tas en tôi thêsaurôi kai tas en Anakeiôi graphas.
Notes:
Abridged from Harpokration s.v., commenting in the first instance on the mention of P. in
Lycurgus fr. 44 Conomis. See also
Photius,
Lexicon pi1035 Theodoridis.
For Polygnotus (C5 BCE) see generally OCD4 s.v.; for the Stoa Poikile see
pi 1469, with further references there.
[1] The transmitted text, in all the lexica, is 'in the treasury'; this is Valckenaer's (standard) emendation.
Translated by: David Whitehead on 17 December 2000@09:40:06.
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