Encyclopædia Britannica, Ninth Edition/Aetion

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​Aetion, a painter, whose famous picture of the marriage of Roxana and Alexander was exhibited at the Olympic games, and gained Aëtion so much reputation that the president of the games gave him his daughter in marriage. The picture is minutely describes by Lucian. Aëtion appears from that author to have flourished in the times of Hadrian and the Antonines.

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