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Chrysippus in Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities

A Stoic philosopher of Soli in Cilicia Campestris. He fixed his residence at Athens, and became a disciple of Cleanthes, the successor of Zeno. He was equally distinguished for natural abilities and industry, seldom suffering a day to elapse without writing 500 lines. He wrote several hundred volumes, of which three hundred were on logical subjects...

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Cineas in Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898)

（Κινέας). A Thessalian, a minister and friend of Pyrrhus, and employed by the latter on many embassies. He had been a pupil of Demosthenes, and possessed considerable talent as an orator. Having been sent by Pyrrhus to Rome with proposals of peace, he compared the Senate, on his return, to an assembly of kings, and a war with the Romans to a contes...

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Clearchus of Soli in Wikipedia

Clearchus or Clearch of Soli (Greek: Kλέαρχoς, Klearkhos) was a Greek philosopher of the 4th-3rd century BCE, belonging to Aristotle's Peripatetic school. He was born in Soli in Cyprus. He wrote extensively on eastern cultures, and is thought to have traveled to the Bactrian city of Ai-Khanoum (Alexanderia on the Oxus)in modern Afghanistan. Writi...

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Callimăchus in Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities

A Greek scholar and poet, the chief representative of the Alexandrian School. He was the son of Battus, and thus sprung from the noble family of the Battiadae. He at first gave his lectures in a suburb of Alexandria; but was afterwards summoned by Ptolemy Philadelphus to the Museum there, and in about B.C. 260 was made curator of the library. He he...

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Callistratus in Wikipedia

Callistratus may refer to: * Callistratus of Aphidnae, Athenian politician of the 4th century BC * Callistratus (grammarian), Alexandrian writer of the 2nd century BC * Callistratus (jurist), Roman legal writer active in the 3rd century AD * Callistratus (sophist), Greek writer of the 3rd or 4th century AD * Callistratus, an Athenian poet of ...

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Cercops in Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities

A Milesian poet, the rival of Hesiod. He is said to have written an epic called Aegimius, which is, by some, ascribed to Hesiod himself....

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Callistrătus in Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities

（Καλλίστρατος). A Greek rhetorician, who probably flourished in the third century A.D. He was the author of descriptions of fourteen statues of celebrated artists-Scopas, for instance, Praxiteles, and Lysippus, written after the manner of Philostratus. His style is dry and affected, and he gives the reader no real insight into the qualities of the ...

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Cebes in Wikipedia

Cebes of Thebes (5th-4th century BCE) was a disciple of Socrates and Philolaus, and a friend of Simmias of Thebes. He is one of the speakers in the Phaedo of Plato, in which he is represented as an earnest seeker after virtue and truth, keen in argument and cautious in decision. Three dialogues, the Hebdome, the Phrynichus and the Pinax or Tabula, ...

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Callinus in Wikipedia

Callinus (also known as Kallinus) (Greek: Καλλῖνος) was a poet who lived in the ancient Greek city of Ephesus in Asia Minor in the mid-7th century BC. He is the earliest known Greek elegiac poet. Very little is known about his life. He may have taken part in the war between Ephesus and Magnesia on the Maeander, since he so eloquently describes it....

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Chariton in Wikipedia

Chariton of Aphrodisias (Greek: Χαρίτων Ἀφροδισεύς)[1] was the author of an ancient Greek novel probably titled Callirhoe (based on the subscription in the sole surviving manuscript), though it is regularly referred to as Chaereas and Callirhoe[2] (which more closely aligns with the title given at the head of the manuscript). Recent evidence of fra...

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