Cydias
(Κυδίας).
1. An Athenian orator, a contemporary of Demosthenes, of whom Aristotle (Aristot. Rh. 2.6.24) mentions an oration περί τῆς Σάμου κλμρουχίας, which Ruhnken refers to the Athenian colony which was sent to Samos in B. C. 352 (Dionys. Deinarch. p. 118), so that the oration of Cydias would have been delivered in that year. (Ruhnken, Hist. Crit. Orat. Graec. p. Ixxiv.)
2. One of the early Greek poets whom Plutarch (de Fac. in Orb. Lun. p. 931e.) classes together with Mimnermus and Archilochus. Whether he is the same as the author of a song which was very popular at Athens in the time of Aristophanes, who however is called by the Scholiast (ad Nub. 966) Cydides of Hermione, is uncertain. (Plat. Charm. p. 155d.; Schneidewin, Delectus Poet. Iamb. et Melic. Graec. p. 375, &c.; Bergk, Poet. Lyr. Graeci, p. 837.) [L.S]
a celebrated painter from the island of Cythnus, B. C. 364, whose picture of the Argonauts was exhibited in a porticus by Agrippa at Rome. (Eustath. ad Dionys. Perieg. 526; Plin. Nat. 35.40.26; D. C. 53.27; Urlichs, Beschr. der Stadt. Rom. 3.3. p. 114.) [L.U]
(Κυδίας). A painter, born in the island of Cythnus, one of the Cyclades, and who flourished B.C. 360. Hortensius, the orator, purchased his painting of the Argonauts for 144,000 sesterces (nearly $5800). This same work was afterwards transferred by Agrippa to the portico of Neptune (Plin. H. N. xxxv. 40).
- slain in battle with Gauls: Paus. 10.21.5