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'''Cydias''' ({{langx|grc|Κυδίας}}), a native of [[Kythnos|Cythnus]], who was living in 364 BC, may be presumed to have been a painter of considerable ability, as one of his pictures, representing [[Jason]] and his followers embarking for Colchis, in search of the [[Golden Fleece]], was purchased at Rome by the orator [[Quintus Hortensius|Hortensius]] for 144,000 [[Sestertius|sesterces]].<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xAN_BAAAQBAJ&q=cydias+painter+sesterces&pg=PA121|title=The Oxford Handbook of Greek and Roman Art and Architecture|isbn=9780199783304|last1=Steiner|first1=Deborah|date=2014-10-29|publisher=Oxford University Press }}</ref> Afterwards the work was bought by [[Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa|Marcus Agrippa]] and placed in the Porticus of Neptune to commemorate his naval victories.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3XVFAQAAMAAJ&q=cydias+artist&pg=PA48|title=Dictionary of the Artists of Antiquity|last1=Sillig|first1=Julius|others=Pliny (the Elder)|year=1836}}</ref>
He also seems to have been a somewhat famous poet as in the ''[[Charmides (dialogue)|Charmides]]'', Socrates attributes a homoerotic verse to him.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://classics.mit.edu/Plato/charmides.html|title = The Internet Classics Archive &#124; Charmides, or Temperance by Plato}}</ref> Socrates quotes this verse while describing his lust for [[Charmides]]'s youthful body. As the painter started working later in Plato's own life, this Cydias may refer to a different, unspecified person.
==Poetry==
* "not to bring the fawn in the sight of the lion to be devoured by him" - fragment of unspecified poem
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'''Attribution:'''
* {{Bryan (3rd edition)|title=Cydias |volume=1}}
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[[Category:4th-century BC painters]]
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