Anaxandra ( grc-gre, Ἀναξάνδρα; fl. 220s BC) was an

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female artist and painter from

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. She was the daughter and student of

Nealkes Nealkes was an ancient Greek painter from Sicyon Sicyon (; el, Σικυών; ''gen''.: Σικυῶνος) or Sikyon was an ancient Greek city state situated in the northern Peloponnesus between Corinth and Achaea on the territory of the pre ...

, a painter of mythological and genre scenes. She painted circa 228 B.C. She is mentioned by

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, 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

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(1st century BC) as his source.

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Her name was given by the

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in 1994 to a large 20 km diameter crater on Venus to commemorate the artist. The name was also used by the author

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for the principal character in her 2003 novel ''Goddess of Yesterday'', which is set during the

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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.

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 3rd-century BC births 3rd-century BC Greek people Ancient Sicyonians Ancient Greek women artists Ancient Greek painters Greek women painters Year of death unknown 3rd-century BC Greek women 3rd-century BC painters {{Greece-painter-stub

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