Epiktetos
Sign in to savethumb|Palaestra|Palaistra scene on a plate, about 520/10 BCE. [[Louvre.]] Epiktetos was an Attic vase painter in the early red-figure style. Besides Oltos, he was the most important painter of the Pioneer Group. He was active between 520 BCE and 490 BCE. His name translates as "newly acquired", which is most probably a reference to his slave status.
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- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Classical Athens
- Languages spoken
- Ancient Greek
- Native language
- Ancient Greek
- Image
- Palaestra scene Louvre G7.jpg
- Work location
- Kerameikos
- Residence
- Classical Athens
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- Epiktetos
- date of birth
- 0600-01-01
- date of death
- 0500-01-01
- time period
- classical antiquity
- culture
- Ancient Greece
- different from
- Epictetus
- member of
- Pioneer Group
- described by source
- Pauly–Wissowa
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thumb|Palaestra|Palaistra scene on a plate, about 520/10 BCE. [[Louvre.]] Epiktetos was an Attic vase painter in the early red-figure style. Besides Oltos, he was the most important painter of the Pioneer Group. He was active between 520 BCE and 490 BCE. His name translates as "newly acquired", which is most probably a reference to his slave status.
== Career == At the beginning of his career, Epiktetos painted a chalice krater made by the potter Andokides, but later he turned to smaller vessels, such as cups and plates. Throughout his long career, he worked for a variety of potters, including Andokides, Hischylos and the Nikosthenes-Pamphaios workshop. Since he signed one plate as painter and potter, he may have carried out both functions at least for some of the time. That plate was a votive offering, dedicated on the Athenian Acropolis. On one kylix, he collaborated with the Euergides Painter. He appears to have been aware of his talent, as he signed more than half of the works ascribed to him.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Epiktetos” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.