Evanthes

(Εὐανθής).

1. Of Cyzicus, is quoted by Hieronymus (ad v. Jovin. 2.14) as an authority for the opinion, that at the time of Pygmalion people were not yet in the habit of eating meat. Whether he is the same as the Evanthes of Cyzicus who, according to Pausanias (6.4.10) gained a prize at the Olympian games, is unknown.

2. Of Miletus, is mentioned as an author by Diogenes Laertius (1.29), and seems to have been an historian, but is otherwise unknown.

3. Of Samos, a Greek historian, who is mentioned only by Plutarch. (Sol. 11.) There are several passages in which authors of the name of Evanthes are referred to; but, their native countries not being stated, it is uncertain whether those passages refer to any of the three Evanthes here specified, or to other persons of the same name. Thus Pliny (Plin. Nat. 8.22) quotes one Evanthes whom he calls inter auctores Graeciae son spretus, and from whose work he gives a statement respecting some religious rite observed in Areadia. One might therefore be inclined to think him the same as the Evanthes who is quoted by the Scholiast on Apollonius Rhodius (1.1063, 1065) as the author of μυθικά. Athenaeus (vii. p. 296) speaks of an epic poet Evanthes, of whose productions he mentions a hymn to Glaucus. [L.S]

(Εὐάνθης), a painter of unknown date, two of whose pictures, in the temple of Zeus Casius at Pelusium, are described very minutely, and with great affectation, by Achilles Tatius (3.6-8). The subjects of them were, the release of Andromeda by Perseus, and the release of Prometheus by Heracles. (Comp. Lucian, de Domo, 22; Philostr. Imag. 1.29.) Both subjects are represented on existing works of art in a manner similar to that of the pictures of Evanthes. (Müller, Arch. d. Kunst, § 396. n. 2.414, n. 3; Pitt. Ere. 4.7, 61; Mus. Borb. 5.32, 6.50, 9.39; Gell, Pomp. pl. 42.) [P.S]