Skythes

thumb|Komos|Komast on the tondo of a bilingual cup inscribed ΕΠΙΛΥΚΟΣ ΚΑΛΟΣ, Epilykos kalos ("Epilykos is beautiful"), circa 510/500 BC. [[Paris: Louvre]] Skythes (, the Scythian) was an Attic black-figure and red-figure vase painter active between about 520 and 505 BC.

Modern scholarship considers Skythes as a kind of artistic loner, whose work cannot easily be categorised among the known workshops and groups. He signed four known kylikes. Further, another ca. twenty kylikes and two dinos stands are attributed to him on the basis of stylistic analysis. His early works were created a short time after the invention of the red-figure technique. On three bilingual works he demonstrates his skill in the older black-figure style. Unusually, they feature red-figure paintings on the interior and on the outside black-figure on coral-red ground. Inside and outside each bear only one figure. He belonged to the first generation of vase painters to specialise in cups.