Antiphilus

an Architect, built, in conjunction with Pothaeus and Megacles, the treasury ofthe Carthaginians at Olympia. (Paus. 6.19.4.) His age and country are unknown. [P.S]

(Ἀντίφιλος), an Athenian general, was appointed as the successor of Leosthenes in the Lamian war, B. C. 323, and gained a victory over Leonnatus. (Diod. 18.13_15 ; Plut. Phocion, 24.) [C.P.M]

(Ἀντίφιλος), of Byzantium, a writer of epigrams, who lived about the time of the emperor Nero, as appears from one of his epigrams in which he mentions the favour conferred by that emperor upon the island of Rhodes. (Anthol. Gr. ix. n. 178; comp. Tacit. Annal. 12.58.) Works Epigrams

The number of his epigrams still extant is upwards of forty, and most of them are superior in conception and style to the majority of these compositions. Reiske, in his notes on the Anthology of Cephalas (p. 191), was led, by the difference of style in some of the poems bearing the name of Antiphilus, to suppose that there were two or three poets of this name, and that their productions were all by mistake ascribed to the one poet of Byzantium. But there is not sufficient ground for such an hypothesis. Further Information

Jacobs, ad Anthol. Gr. xiii. p. 851, &c. [L.S]

of Egypt, a very distinguished painter, was the pupil of Ctesidemus, and the contemporary and rival of Apelles. (Lucian, de Calumn. 59.1-5.) Having been born in Egypt, he went when young to the court of Macedonia, where he painted portraits of Philip and Alexander. The latter part of his life was spent in Egypt, under the patronage of Ptolemy, the son of Lagus, whom he painted hunting. He flourished, therefore, during the latter half of the 4th century B. C. Concerning his false accusation against Apelles before Ptolemy, see Apelles.

The quality in which he most excelled is thus described by Quintilian, who mentions him among the greatest painters of the age of Philip and Alexander (12.10.6): "facilitate Antiphilus, concipiendis visionibus, quas φαντασίας vocant," which expressions seem to describe a light and airy elegance. In the list of his works given by Pliny are some which answer exactly in subject to the "φαντασίαι" of Quintilian. (Plin. Nat. 35.37, 40.) Varro (R. R. 3.2.5, Schn.) names him with Lysippus. [P.S]

(Ἀντίφιλος). A Greek painter born in Egypt in the latter half of the fourth century B.C., a contemporary and rival of Apelles; he probably spent the last part of his life at the court of the first Ptolemy. The ancients praise the lightness and dexterity with which he handled subjects of high art, as well as scenes in daily life. Two of his pictures in the latter kind were especially famous, one of a boy blowing a fire, and another of women dressing wool. From his having painted a man named Gryllus (pig) with playful allusions to the sitter's name, caricatures in general came to be called grylli (Pliny , Pliny H. N. xxxv. 114, 138).

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