Thales (painter)
Thales of Sicyon was an ancient Greek painter who is mentioned with the epithet megalophyes, genius by Diogenes Laërtius (i. 38), on the authority of . In the same passage, Diogenes speaks of another Thales, as mentioned in the work of Duris on painting; it may be presumed, therefore, that this Thales was a painter, but whether the two were different persons, or the same person differently mentioned by Demetrius and by Duris, cannot be determined.
He is placed by a late Byzantine writer, Theodore Hyrtacenus, on a level with Pheidias and Apelles.
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