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	Redevoeringen, Andocides, 415 v. Chr. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		He persuaded Agatharchus, the artist, to accompany him home,1 and then forced him to paint; and when Agatharchus appealed to him, stating with perfect truth that he could not oblige him at the moment because he had other engagements, Alcibiades threatened him with imprisonment, unless he started painting straight away.
		Agatharchus only made his escape three months later, by slipping past his guards and running away as he might have done from the king of Persia.
		But so shameless is Alcibiades that he went to Agatharchus and accused him of doing him a wrong; instead of apologizing for his violence, he uttered threats against him for leaving his work unfinished.
	www.burgerschapskunde.nl /andocydes.html (3195 words)

	AGATHARCHUS - LoveToKnow Article on AGATHARCHUS
		This is a mistaken view, for ancient writers know nothing of canvas scenes; the background painted by Agatharchus was the wooden front of the stage building, and it was painted, not with reference to any particular play, but as a permanent decorative background, representing no doubt a palace or temple.
		Agatharchus is said to have been seized by Alcibiades and compelled by him to paint the interior of his house, which shows that at the time (about 435 B.C.) decorative painting of rooms was the fashion.
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	www.1911encyclopedia.org /A/AG/AGATHARCHUS.htm (145 words)

	Polybius • Histories — Book 7
		Hannibal gave a courteous reception to Polycleitus and Philodemus, held out many hopes to the youthful king, and sent the ambassadors back without delay accompanied by the Carthaginian Hannibal, who was then commander of the triremes, and the Syracusans, Hippocrates and his brother the younger Epicydes.
		These two brothers had been serving for some time under Hannibal, having adopted Carthage as their country, since their grandfather had been exiled because he was thought to have assassinated Agatharchus, one of the sons of Agathocles.
		So while agatharchus and his colleagues were still negotiating at Carthage in the above sense, he sent off other envoys, affirming that the sovereignty of the whole of Sicily was his by right, demanding that the Carthaginians should help him to recover Sicily and promising to assist them in their Italian campaign.
	penelope.uchicago.edu /Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Polybius/7*.html (4247 words)

	Encyclopedia: Sicilian Expedition
		Outside Syracuse, the Athenians built a smaller walled enclosure for their sick and injured, and put everyone else (including many of the soldiers remaining on land) on their ships for one last battle, on September 9.
		The fleet was now commanded by Demosthenes, Menander, and Euthydemus, while the Syracusan fleet was led by Sicanus and Agatharchus on the wings and Pythen from Corinth in the centre.
		September 3 is the 246th day of the year (247th in leap years).
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Sicilian-Expedition (4326 words)

	A History of Greek Art - With an Introductory Chapter on Art in Egypt and Mesopotamia By F.B. Tarbell- Chapter 12 from ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		It may be, as has been conjectured, that the impulse toward a style of work in which a greater degree of illusion was aimed at and secured came from this branch of the art.
		We read, at any rate, that one Agatharchus, a scene-painter who flourished about the middle of the fifth century, wrote a treatise which stimulated two philosophers to an investigation of the laws of perspective.
		Alcibiades is said to have imprisoned a reluctant painter, Agatharchus (cf.
	www.nalanda.nitc.ac.in /resources/english/etext-project/history/greekart/chapter12.html (4766 words)

	The Peloponnesian War -- Chapter 23 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		After the above address to the soldiers on their side, the Syracusan generals and Gylippus now perceived that the Athenians were manning their ships, and immediately proceeded to man their own also.
		The Syracusan fleet was commanded by Sicanus and Agatharchus, who had each a wing of the whole force, with Pythen and the Corinthians in the centre.
		So long as a vessel was coming up to the charge the men on the decks rained darts and arrows and stones upon her; but once alongside, the heavy infantry tried to board each other's vessel, fighting hand to hand.
	www.litrix.com /pelop/pelop023.htm (4953 words)

	Thucydides-Passages (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		A detachment of them guarded the entrance of the harbour; the remainder were disposed all round it in such a manner that they might fall on the Athenians from every side at once, and that their land-forces might at the same time be able to co-operate wherever the ships retreated to the shore.
		Sicanus and Agatharchus commanded the Syracusan fleet, each of them a wing; Python and the Corinthians occupied the centre.
		When the Athenians approached the closed mouth of the harbour the violence of their onset overpowered the ships which were stationed there; they then attempted to loosen the fastenings.
	classicpersuasion.org /pw/thucydides/thucydides-passages.php?pleaseget=7.70-74 (1588 words)

	The Internet Classics Archive \| The History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides
		As the Athenians had used them as a magazine, there was a large stock of goods and corn of the merchants inside, and also a large stock belonging to the captains; the masts and other furniture of forty galleys being taken, besides three galleys which had been drawn up on shore.
		After this the Syracusans sent out twelve ships under the command of Agatharchus, a Syracusan.
		One of these went to Peloponnese with ambassadors to describe the hopeful state of their affairs, and to incite the Peloponnesians to prosecute the war there even more actively than they were now doing, while the eleven others sailed to Italy, hearing that vessels laden with stores were on their way to the Athenians.
	classics.mit.edu /Thucydides/pelopwar.7.seventh.html (6684 words)

	Perspective: The Role of Perspective in Shaping the Renaissance
		The first historical mentions of art, by Plato and contemporaries in the 5th century BC, were provoked by the dramatic use of perspective in the scenery for the plays of Aeschylus and Sophocles.
		One of these innovative scene painters, Agatharchus, even wrote a commentary on his use of convergent perspective, whose effects had inspired several contemporary Greek geometers to analyze the projective transform mathematically.
		Did this early focus of excitement lead to a general understanding of perspective?
	webexhibits.org /sciartperspective/perspective1.html (860 words)

	Tarbell : Zeuxis and Parrhasius
		Moreover, we hear first in this period of mural painting as applied to domestic interiors.
		Alcibiades is said to have imprisoned a reluctant painter, Agatharchus, in his house and to have forced him to decorate the walls.
		The result of this sort of private demand was what we have seen taking place a hundred years later in the case of sculpture, viz.: that artists became free to employ their talents on any subjects which would gratify the taste of patrons.
	www.ellopos.net /elpenor/greek-texts/ancient-greece/history-of-ancient-greek-art-80.asp (478 words)

	Classical Period - Politics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Unfortunately nothing has come down to us either of the works on music by Laius from Hermione and by Damon of Athens, or by Sophocles 'On Dancing'.
		Polyclitus, we know, made reference to proportions in sculpture with his 'Canon'; Agatharchus wrote about scene-painting; and Parrhasius and Democritus wrote about painting.
		These works were probably pitched more at the level of theory of art criticism than that of aesthetics; but without them the level of philosophical generalization that we find in the aesthetic attitudes of Plato and Aristotle would hardly have been possible.
	pegasos.fhw.gr /chronos/05/en/culture/1700aesthet_intro.html (196 words)

	Agatharchus - ENCYCLOPEDIA - The History Channel UK
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	Vol. 3 Ch. 1
		Meanwhile, authors of perspective treatises were becoming interested in the question.
		Barbaro (1568) began his introduction noting that scenography was an important part of perspective; that Agatharchus had produced a tragic scene and written a first commentary on the topic; that perspective had been important among Roman scene painters and had become so again in the early Renaissance.
		A combination of these artistic and mathematical traditions was carried out by Danti (1583) in his commentary on Vignola.
	www.mmi.unimaas.nl /people/Veltman/books/vol3/ch1.htm (17561 words)

	[2004: February] Re: scene painters (Unreasonably Speculative)
		> Agatharchus Athenis Aeschylo docente tragoediam scaenam fecit et de ea
		This, combined with Aristotle's bare statement that Sophocles introduced scene-painting already cited by EV (in Csapo and Slater II.11), would suggest that Agatharchus did (or at least could have done) skenographia for Sophocles and Aeschylus.
		Probably the sentence in the "experimental fiction" cited in the article is actually a "sample" from some article or book chapter on scenography (in the modern sense).
	omega.cohums.ohio-state.edu /mailing_lists/CLA-L/2004/02/0366.php (894 words)

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