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Castor of Rhodes in Wikipedia

Castor of Rhodes (also known as Castor of Massalia or Castor of Galatia according to Suidas) was a Greek grammarian and rhetorician, surnamed Philoromaeus, and is usually believed to have lived about the time of Cicero and Julius Caesar. Background He is frequently referred to as an authority in historical matters, though no historical work is spe...

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Aegimius in Wikipedia

Aegimius (Greek: Αἰγίμιος) was the Greek mythological ancestor of the Dorians, who is described as their king and lawgiver at the time when they were yet inhabiting the northern parts of Thessaly.[1] He asked Heracles for help in a war against the Lapiths and, in gratitude, offered him one-third of his kingdom. The Lapiths were conquered, but Herac...

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Charidemus in Wikipedia

Charidemus (in Greek Χαρίδημος), of Oreus in Euboea, was a Greek mercenary leader of the 4th century BC. About 367 BC he fought under the Athenian general Iphicrates against Amphipolis. Being ordered by Iphicrates to take the Amphipolitan hostages to Athens, he allowed them to return to their own people, and joined Cotys, king of Thrace, against A...

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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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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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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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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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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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