Galaton

Galaton (Ancient Greek: Γαλάτων) was an ancient Greek painter, whose picture representing Homer vomiting with other poets gathering up the vomit, is mentioned by Aelian ( V. H. xiii. 22) and by a scholiast to Lucian (i. p. 499, ed. Wetstein), who calls the painter Gelaton. He probably lived under the reign of Ptolemy IV Philopator (222-205 BC), and his picture was no doubt intended to ridicule the Alexandrian epic poets.

References

• Galaton (Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology).
• Meyer, Kunstgeschkhte vol. ii. p. 193 ; Muller, Archaeol. d. Kunsl, § 163, n. 3.