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Polygnotus

7. His paintings in the chamber adjoining to the Propylaea of the Acropolis were probably the latest of his great works. The subjects were all from Homer and the epic cycle (Paus. 1.22; Böttiger, pp. 290, 291).

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.