Alcisthene
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Alcisthene or Alkisthene () may have been a female painter mentioned by Pliny the Elder, in a list of notable female painters. In the Latin text, however, the name Alcisthenes seems to refer instead to a dancer (saltator) who is the subject of a painting by Irene daughter of the painter Cratinus.
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Alcisthene or Alkisthene () may have been a female painter mentioned by Pliny the Elder, in a list of notable female painters. In the Latin text, however, the name Alcisthenes seems to refer instead to a dancer (saltator) who is the subject of a painting by Irene daughter of the painter Cratinus.
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