Timanthes of

Sicyon Sicyon (; el, Σικυών; ''gen''.: Σικυῶνος) or Sikyon was an ancient Greek city state situated in the northern Peloponnesus between Corinth and Achaea on the territory of the present-day regional unit of Corinthia. An ancient mona ...

( el, Τιμάνθης ὁ Σικυώνιος) was an ancient Greek

painter Painting is the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a solid surface (called the "matrix" or "support"). The medium is commonly applied to the base with a brush, but other implements, such as knives, sponges, and ai ...

of the 3rd century BC. In 250 BC he accompanied Aratus of Sicyon on his voyage to Alexandria and later he celebrated his victory against the Aetolians with a famous painting of the Battle of Pellene (241 BC).

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* Plutarch, Aratus, 12,3 and 32,6. Ancient Greek painters Ancient Sicyonians 3rd-century BC Greek people 3rd-century BC painters {{Greece-painter-stub