Apelles (disambiguation)
Appearance
Apelles may signify:
- Apelles, the most famous painter of Antiquity;
- Apelles, father of Aristophanes of Byzantium.[1]
- Apelles, one of the guardians of Philip V of Macedon.
- Apelles, perhaps a son of the preceding, was a friend of Philip V of Macedon, and accompanied his son Demetrius to Rome in 183 BCE. (Plb. 23.14, &c., 24.1.)
- Apelles of Ascalon, chief tragic poet in the time of Caligula.[2][3][4]
- Apelles of Heraklion, one of the Seventy Disciples;
- Apelles (gnostic), the founder of a Gnostic sect in the 2nd century.
- Apelles, an important advisor of Philip V of Macedon.
- "Apelles" was also a pseudonym used by the Jesuit Christoph Scheiner in writing on sunspots.
- The gossamer-winged butterfly genus Apelles is nowadays included in Glaucopsyche.
See also: HMS Apelles