Apelles of Kos (flourished 4th century BCE) is a renowned painter of ancient Greece.
Pliny the Elder, to whom we owe much of our knowledge of this artist (Naturalis Historia 35.36.79-97 and passim) rated him superior to preceding and subsequent artists.
He dated Apelles to the 112th Olympiad (332-329 BCE), possibly because he had produced a portrait of Alexander the Great.
