title: Parrhasius
text: # Parrhasius
  
  Parrhasius (Greek: Παρράσιος) may refer to:
  
  * Persons:
     * Parrhasius (painter), a famous painter who worked in Athens in the late 5th century BC
     * Janus Parrhasius (1470–1522), Italian humanist scholar
     * Parrhasius (son of Lycaon), in mythology, a son of Lycaon, from whom Parrhasia (Arcadia) was believed to have derived its name
  * Taxonomy:
     * Parrhasius (butterfly), a butterfly genus
  