About Heraclides
Heraclides was a painter.
Heraclides or Heracleides was a Macedonian painter, who was at first merely a marine painter of sea and ships, but afterwards acquired some distinction as a painter in encaustic. He lived in the time of Perseus, after whose fall he went to Athens (168 BC).
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ancient Greek artist
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Heraclides was a painter.
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