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Calamis (5th century BC)

Calamis (5th century BC) Calamis (fl. 5th century BC) was a sculptor of ancient Greece. He was possibly from Boeotia, but nothing certain is known of his life. He is known to have worked in marble, bronze, gold, and ivory, and was famed for statues of horses. According to Pausanias (9.16.1), Calamis produced a statue of Zeus Ammon for Pindar, and ...

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Zoilus in Wikipedia

Zoilus or Zoilos (Greek: Ζωΐλος; c. 400 BC-320 BC) was a Greek grammarian, Cynic philosopher, and literary critic from Amphipolis in East Macedonia, then known as Thrace. Took the name Homeromastix (Ὁμηρομάστιξ "Homer whipper"; gen.: Ὁμηρομάστιγος) later in life. According to Vitruvius (vii., preface) he lived during the age of Ptolemy Philadelphu...

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Zoĭlus in Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898)

（Ζωΐλος). A grammarian, a native of Amphipolis, who flourished in the time of Philip of Macedon. He was celebrated for the asperity with which he assailed Homer (Ὁμηρομάστιξ), and his name became proverbial for a captious and malignant critic (V. H. xi. 10). See Spindler, De Zoïlo Homeromastige Qui Vocatur, 2 pts. (1888- 89)....

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Zosimas of Palestine in Wikipedia

Venerable[1] Zosimas of Palestine, also called Zosima, is commemorated as a saint in the Eastern Orthodox and Byzantine Catholic Churches on April 4. Saint Zosimas was born in the second half of the fifth century, during the reign of Emperor Theodosius the Younger. He became a monk in a monastery in Palestine at a very young age, gaining a reputat...

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Zeuxidamus in Wikipedia

Zeuxidamus (Ζευξίδαμος) can refer to two ancient Spartans. 1. A king of Sparta, and tenth of the Eurypontid dynasty. He was grandson of Theopompus, and father of Anaxidamus, who succeeded him. [1] 2. A son of Leotychides, king of Sparta. He was also named Cyniscus. He died before his father, leaving a son, Archidamus II[2]...

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Zenodotus in Wikipedia

Zenodotus (Ancient Greek: Ζηνόδοτος), was a Greek grammarian, literary critic, and Homeric scholar. A native of Ephesus and a pupil of Philitas of Cos, he was the first librarian of the Library of Alexandria. He lived during the reigns of the first two Ptolemies, and was at the height of his reputation about 280 BC. Zenodotus was the first superin...

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Zosimas of Palestine in Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898)

（Ζώσιμος). A Greek historian who lived as a high officer of State at Constantinople in the second half of the fifth century A.D., and composed a work, distinguished for its intelligent and liberal views, on the fall of the Roman Empire. It is in six books: i. giving a sketch of the time from Augustus to Diocletian; ii.-iv. a fuller account of event...

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Zenodŏtus in Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898)

（Ζηνόδοτος). A celebrated grammarian of Ephesus, superintendent of the great library at Alexandria, who flourished under Ptolemy Philadelphus, about B.C. 308. Zenodotus was employed by Philadelphus, together with his two contemporaries, Alexander the Aetolian and Lycophron the Chalcidian, to collect and revise all the Greek poets. Alexander, we are...

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Zeuxis in Wikipedia

Zeuxis (Greek: Ζεῦξις) (of Heraclea) was a painter who flourished during the 5th century BC. Life and work Zeuxis was born in Heraclea around 464 BC and was presumably the pupil of Apollodorus. Zeuxis often thought himself misunderstood by his public and Aristotle did not like him at all. He is said to have laughed himself to death after painting ...

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Zeuxis in Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898)

（Ζεῦξις). A celebrated Greek painter of the Ionic School, a contemporary of Parrhasius; he was a native of Heraclea in South Italy, and lived till about B.C. 400 at different places in Greece, at last, as it appears, settling in Ephesus. According to the accounts of his works which have been preserved, in contrast to the great mural painter, Polygn...

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