Polyidus
artists.
1. Besides the painter and dithyrambic poet (see above), Vitruvius mentions the two following artists of this name, who may, however, very possibly have been one and the same person, since military engineers were often also architects.
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.