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AETION, or EETION

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Originally appearing in Volume V01, Page 298 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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AETION, or EETION  , a Greek painter, mentioned by
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Cicero, Pliny and Lucian . His most noted
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work, described in detail by Lucian (Herodotus or Eetion, 5), was a picture representing the
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marriage of Alexander and Roxana . He is said to have exhibited it at the Olympic games, and by it so to have won the favour of the president that he gave him his daughter in marriage . Though a misunderstanding of the words of Lucian, Aetion has been supposed to belong to the age of the Antonines; but there can be little doubt that he was a contemporary of Alexander and of
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Apelles (Brunn, Geschichte der griechischen Kiinstler, ii. p . 243) . Pliny gives his date as 350 B.C .

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