Serapion
a highly celebrated scene-painter, who failed, however, in his attempts to depict the human figure. We have no better clue to the time at which he flourished than the following obscure passage in Pliny :--Maeniana, inquit Varro, omnia operiebat Serapionis tabula sub Veteribus (Plin. Nat. 35.10. s. 37). The invention of scenepainting is ascribed to Sophocles. (Aristot. Poet. 4.)
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.