Anaxandra
{{Short description|Ancient Greek artist and painter}}
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Anaxandra ({{langx|grc|Ἀναξάνδρα}}; fl. 220s BC) was an ancient Greek female artist and painter from Greece.{{cite book|last=Ellet|first=E. F.|title=Women artists in all ages and countries|url=https://archive.org/details/womenartistsina01ellegoog|year=1859|publisher=Harper & Bros.|location=New York}} She was the daughter and student of Nealkes, a painter of mythological and genre scenes.{{cite book|last=Smith|first=William|title=A new classical dictionary of Greek and Roman biography, mythology, and geography, partly based upon the Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology|year=1851|publisher=Harper & Brothers.|location=New York|page=163}} She painted {{Circa|228 B.C.}}Id. She is mentioned by Clement of Alexandria, the 2nd century Christian theologian, in a section of his Stromateis (Miscellanies) entitled "Women as Well as Men Capable of Perfection". Clement cites a lost work of the Hellenistic scholar Didymus Chalcenterus (1st century BC) as his source.{{cite book|last=Marinella|first=Lucrezia|title=The Nobility and Excellence of Women and the Defects and Vices of Men|year=1999|publisher=University of Chicago Press|location=Chicago|isbn=9780226505503|page=91|edition=2nd|translator-last=Dunhill |translator-first=Anne}}
Modern uses
Her name was given by the International Astronomical Union in 1994 to a large 20 km diameter crater on Venus to commemorate the artist.{{cite book|last=Cattermole|first=Peter|title=Atlas of Venus|year=1997|publisher=Cambridge Univ. Press|location=Cambridge [u.a.]|isbn=0521496527|page=113|edition=1. publ.|author2=Moore, Patrick}} The name was also used by the author Caroline B. Cooney for the principal character in her 2003 novel Goddess of Yesterday, which is set during the Trojan War.{{cite book|last=Cooney|first=Caroline B.|title=Goddess of yesterday|year=2002|publisher=Delacorte Press|location=New York|isbn=9780385729451|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/goddessofyesterd00coon}}
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References
- {{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20070405163226/http://www.ancientlibrary.com/smith-bio/0172.html Anaxandra ]}} in the Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology William Smith (1870) at Ancient Library. Accessed September 2007
- [https://books.google.com/books?id=m1A1AAAAMAAJ&dq=anaxandra+artist&pg=PR1 Women Artists in All Ages and Countries] By Elizabeth Fries Ellet, New York, 1859. At Google book search.
- [http://www.sikyon.com/sicyon/Painting/spainting_eg.html Painting of Ancient Sikyon] at Ancient Greek Cities, (1997) Ellen Papakyriakou/Anagnostou. Accessed September 2007
- [http://www.lpi.usra.edu/resources/vc/vcinfo/?refnum=321 Anaxandra crater] Venus Crater database, Lunar and Planetary Institute, 2007
- [http://planetarynames.wr.usgs.gov/jsp/FeatureNameDetail.jsp?feature=60422 Anaxandra crater] Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature. Accessed September 2007
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Category:Ancient Greek women artists
Category:Ancient Greek painters
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Category:3rd-century BC Greek women
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