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The Dinner Party: Heritage Floor: Helena




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Battle of Issus, House of the Faun, Pompeii, 1st century B.C. Museo Archeologico Nazionale, Naples

Helena
Flourished circa 350 B.C., ancient Greece

According to traditional sources, Helena was a painter in fourth-century B.C. Greece, known best for a painting she did of the Battle of Issus. The famous Alexander mosaic at Pompeii, which depicts Alexander's defeat of Darius at the Battle of Issus, may be a copy of Helena's painting, but it has also been linked to the work of another painter, Philoxenus of Eretria.

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Last updated January 29, 2007.
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