Alcisthene

{{Short description|Ancient Greek female painter}}

Alcisthene or Alkisthene ({{langx|grc|Ἀλκισθένη}}) may have been a female painter mentioned by Pliny the Elder,Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia xxxv. 11. s. 40 in a list of notable female painters.{{cite encyclopedia|last=Mason |first=Charles Peter |title=Alcis (1) |editor=William Smith |editor-link=William Smith (lexicographer) |encyclopedia=Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology |volume=1 |pages=104 |publisher=Little, Brown and Company |location=Boston |year=1867 |url=http://www.ancientlibrary.com/smith-bio/0113.html |url-status=usurped |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20131111194352/http://www.ancientlibrary.com/smith-bio/0113.html |archivedate=November 11, 2013 }}{{cite book | last = Samson | first = George Whitefield | author-link = | title = Elements of Art Criticism | publisher = J. B. Lippincott & Co. | year = 1876 | location = Philadelphia | pages = 582 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=mnM1AAAAMAAJ | doi = | id = | isbn = }} In the Latin text, however, the name Alcisthenes seems to refer instead to a dancer (saltator) who is the subject of a painting by Irene daughter of the painter Cratinus.{{cite book | last = Pliny the Elder | title = Naturalis Historia | url = https://latin.packhum.org/loc/978/1/2576/267-278@1#2576 }}