Aetion
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- ↑ Callimachus, Anth. Gr. ix. 336
- ↑ Theocritus, Epigr. vii
- ↑ Karl Otfried Müller, Arch. der Kunst, p. 151.
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- Antonio Corso. Aetion, Artist of the Age of Alexander. Actual Problems of Theory and History of Art: Collection of articles. Vol. 7. Ed. S. V. Mal’tseva, E. Iu. Staniukovich-Denisova, A. V. Zakharova. St. Petersburg, St. Petersburg Univ. Press, 2017, pp. 103–109. ISSN 2312-2129. https://dx.doi.org/10.18688/aa177-1-11