220s BC) was an ancient Greek female artist and painter from Greece.
[3] She is mentioned by Clement of Alexandria, 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 Didymus Chalcenterus (1st century BC) as his source.
[4] Her name was given by the International Astronomical Union in 1994 to a large 20 km diameter crater on Venus to commemorate the artist.
[5] The name was also used by the author Caroline B. Cooney for the principal character in her 2003 novel Goddess of Yesterday, which is set during the Trojan War.