Eucheir

Is one of those names of Grecian artists, which are first used in the mythological period, on account of their significancy, but which were afterwards given to real persons.

Eucheir, a relation of Daedalus, and the inventor of painting in Greece, according to Aristotle, is no doubt only a mythical personage.

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References

Sources

  • Pliny the Elder. Naturalis Historia vii, 56.
  • Smith, William. (1870). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. London: Taylor, Walton, and Maberly.

This article incorporates text from Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology (1870) by William Smith, which is in the public domain.