Cleanthes
an ancient painter of Corinth, mentioned among the inventors of that art by Pliny (Plin. Nat. 35.5) and Athenagoras. (Legat. pro Christ. 100.17). A picture by him representing the birth of Minerva was seen in the temple of Diana near the Alpheus. (Strab. viii. p.343b.; Athen. 8.346c.) This work was not, as Gerhard (Auserles. Vasenbilder, i. p. 12) says, confounding our artist with Ctesilochus (Plin. Nat. 35.40), in a ludicrous style, but rather in the severe style of ancient art.
From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.