Philoxenus of Eretria

Philoxenus of Eretria was an ancient painter of the late 4th century BC

Little is handed over Philoxenos. According to Pliny ( Naturalis historia 35, 110 ), he was a disciple of Nicomachus, a contemporary of Alexander the Great, whose victory over Darius III. he is said to have recorded in a painting that perhaps served as a template for the found in Pompeii Alexander mosaic. According to Pliny, he also painted a representation of three satyrs. Furthermore, it can a hunting scene in Palermo may assign Philoxenos.