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Panaenus

Πάναινος). A distinguished Athenian painter, who flourished B.C. 448. He was the nephew of Phidias, whom he assisted in decorating the Temple of Zeus at Olympia. He was also the author of a series of paintings, of the battle of Marathon, in the Stoa Poecilé at Athens (Pausan. v. 11, 5).

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