Epeleios Painter (c-540 - c-490). The Epeleios Painter was a Greek vase painter who worked towards the end of the 6th century BC. He was as active in Athens. The Epeleios Painter was one of the relatively early red-figure bowl painters. His creative period is around 530 to 500 BC. He is considered a third-rate vase painter, but was quite productive. John D. Beazley assigns him to the Coarser Wing; by which he describes the third-rate vase painters of the time. The name of the Epeleios painter has not survived, which is why Beazley, who recognized and defined his artistic handwriting within the large traditional body of antique painted ceramics, made him distinguishable with fictious name. His pictures often show individual athletes or palaeolithic scenes with several athletes and warriors. His pictures of Dionysian themes are particularly striking and imaginative. The Epeleios painter, like the Euergides painter, worked in the style of the master Epiktetos, but without reaching his class or even the skills of the Euergides painter. His works often give the impression of being rough copies of the works of Epictetus. Several vases were listed as works with Euergidian and Epeleiic elements because of their graphic details. He decorated some eye cups with the fan palmettes, which were going out of fashion at the time, suggesting that he may be an older vase painter than his colleagues. Like other painters from his circle, he occasionally puts statements in the mouth of his figures, for example on the tondo of a bowl to the satyr hedys woinos, also named as Terpon; the wine is sweet.