Damocrates (ceramist)
Damocrates (Δαμοκράτης) was a producer of so-called Rhodian vases . He was active in the Hellenistic period and is only known through literary tradition in Athenaios . It is unclear whether he worked as a potter himself or whether he owned a workshop.
swell
- Athenaios : Banquet of the Scholars (Deipnosophistai) 11,500 b
literature
- Rainer Vollkommer (editor): Artists lexicon of antiquity . Over 3800 artists from three millennia. Nikol, Hamburg 2007, ISBN 978-3-937872-53-7 , p. 156.
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SURNAME | Damocrates |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Producer of so-called Rhodian vases |
DATE OF BIRTH | between 4th century BC BC and 1st century BC Chr. |
DATE OF DEATH | between 4th century BC BC and 1st century BC Chr. |