Anaxandra

Not to be confused with Anaxander.

Anaxandra (‹See Tfd›Greek: Ἀναξάνδρα; fl. 220s BC) was an ancient Greek female artist and painter from Greece.^[1] She was the daughter and student of Nealkes, a painter of mythological and genre scenes.^[2] She painted c. 228 B.C.^[3] 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.^[4]

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.^[5] 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.^[6]

See also

• List of craters on Venus

Notes

1. Ellet, E. F. (1859). Women artists in all ages and countries. New York: Harper & Bros.
2. Smith, William (1851). A new classical dictionary of Greek and Roman biography, mythology, and geography, partly based upon the Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology. New York: Harper & Brothers. p. 163.
3. Id.
4. Marinella, Lucrezia (1999). The Nobility and Excellence of Women and the Defects and Vices of Men. Translated by Dunhill, Anne (2nd ed.). Chicago: University of Chicago Press. p. 91. ISBN 9780226505503.
5. Cattermole, Peter; Moore, Patrick (1997). Atlas of Venus (1. publ. ed.). Cambridge [u.a.]: Cambridge Univ. Press. p. 113. ISBN 0521496527.
6. Cooney, Caroline B. (2002). Goddess of yesterday. New York: Delacorte Press. ISBN 9780385729451.

References

• Anaxandra in the Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology William Smith (1870) at Ancient Library. Accessed September 2007
• Women Artists in All Ages and Countries By Elizabeth Fries Ellet, New York, 1859. At Google book search.
• Painting of Ancient Sikyon at Ancient Greek Cities, (1997) Ellen Papakyriakou/Anagnostou. Accessed September 2007
• Anaxandra crater Venus Crater database, Lunar and Planetary Institute, 2007
• Anaxandra crater Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature. Accessed September 2007