Antiphilus

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Antiphilus

(ăntĭf`ĭləs), fl. 4th cent. B.C., Greek painter, of Alexandrian origin. Pliny and Quintilian wrote about his paintings of gryllos, a creature part man, part animal or bird. Pliny further stated that he painted portraits of Philip of Macedon and Alexander the Great, though none of his many works has survived.

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The connection between the Antiphilus epigram and the Eucrates relief is an easy one to make: they both seem to pose the same sort of questions; and they both paint the image of cured physical blindness as being the structural counterpart of cured intellectual and ritual blindness.

'Blessed is he, who has seen': the power of ritual viewing and ritual framing in Eleusis

The Porter's scene in Macbeth, he writes, takes place in a "large Court, surrounded all or in part by an open gallery; chambers opening into that gallery; the gallery ascended into by stairs, open likewise; with additions of a colledge-like gateway, into which opens a porter's lodge." The Comedy of Errors traffics in a "publick Place, or large Square; op'ning upon which, (to the right, the left, and in front) were the Duke's palace, the house of Antiphilus Ephesian, and the Abbey; and whose centre was the mart or exchange ..." (Notes Vol.

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11.29.6 Automedon, 9.415.8 Antiphilus of Byzantium (see below) and 9.416.7 Philip of Thessalonica.