Mnason
2. Tyrant of Elatea. He seems to have distinguished himself by his liberal patronage of the fine arts. For a picture painted by Aristeides he paid 1000 minae; and for pictures of the twelve gods by Asclepiodorus 300 minae for each. (Plin. Nat. 35.36.18, 21.)
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.