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Theodectes in Wikipedia

Theodectes (c. 380 to 340 BCE) was a Greek rhetorician and tragic poet, of Phaselis in Lycia who lived in the period which followed the Peloponnesian War. Along with the continual decay of political and religious life, tragedy sank more and more into mere rhetorical display. The school of Isocrates produced the orators and tragedians, Theodectes an...

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Theodotus of Byzantium in Wikipedia

Theodotus of Byzantium (also known as Theodotus the Tanner and Theodotus the Shoemaker; flourished late 2nd century) was an early Christian writer from Byzantium, one of several named Theodotus whose writings were condemned as heresy in the early church. Theodotus claimed that Jesus was born of the Virgin Mary and the Holy Spirit as a mortal man, ...

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Theron in Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898)

tyrant of Agrigentum, in Sicily, who reigned from about B.C. 488 till his death in 472. He shared with Gelon in the great victory gained over the Carthaginians in 480. See Diod. xi. 20-25, 48, 53; Herod.vii. 165; and the article Gelo....

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Theagenes of Rhegium in Wikipedia

Theagenes of Rhegium[1] (Θεαγένης ὁ Ῥηγῖνος) was a Greek literary critic of the sixth century BC. He is noted for having defended the mythology of Homer, from more rationalist attacks. In so doing he became an early proponent of the allegorical method of reading texts.[2][3] None of his work is known to survive. Its effects were felt later.[4]...

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Theodectes in Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898)

（Θεοδέκτης). Of Phaselis, in Lycia, a Greek rhetorician and tragic poet. He carried off the prize eight times, and in B.C. 351 his tragedy of Mausolus was victorious in the tragic contest instituted by Queen Artemisia in honour of her deceased husband Mausolus. In the rhetorical contest, held at the same time, he was defeated by Theopompus. Only un...

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Theodōrus

Of Byzantium, a rhetorician, and a contemporary of Plato....

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Terpander in Wikipedia

Terpander (Greek: Τέρπανδρος), of Antissa in Lesbos, was a Greek poet and citharede who lived about the first half of the 7th century BC. About the time of the Second Messenian War, he settled in Sparta, whither, according to some accounts, he had been summoned by command of the Delphic Oracle, to compose the differences which had arisen between d...

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Theages in Wikipedia

Theages is a dialogue attributed to Plato, featuring Demodocus, Socrates and Theages. There is debate over its authenticity;[1] W. R. M. Lamb draws this conclusion from his opinion that the work is inferior and un-Socratic, but acknowledges that it was universally regarded as authentic in antiquity.[2] In the dialogue, Demodocus introduces his son...

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Theodorus of Samos in Wikipedia

Theodorus of Samos (Greek: Θεόδωρος ο Σάμιος) was a 6th century BC ancient Greek sculptor and architect from the Greek island of Samos. Along with Rhoecus, he was often credited with the invention of ore smelting and, according to Pausanias, the craft of casting. He is also credited with inventing a water level, a carpenter's square, and, according...

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Theognis of Megara in Wikipedia

Theognis of Megara (Ancient Greek: Θέογνις ὁ Μεγαρεύς, Théognis o Megareus; fl. 6th century BC) was an ancient Greek poet. More than half of the extant elegiac poetry of Greece before the Alexandrian period is included in the 1,400 verses ascribed to Theognis.[1] Collection This collection contains several poems acknowledged to have been composed ...

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