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Calliphon in Wikipedia

Calliphon (or Callipho, Greek: Καλλιφῶν; 2nd century BC) was a Greek philosopher, who probably belonged to the Peripatetic school and lived in the 2nd century BC.[1] He is mentioned several times and condemned by Cicero as making the chief good of man to consist in a union of virtue (Latin: honestas) and bodily pleasure (Greek: ἡδονή, Latin: volupt...

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Celsus in Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898)

A Platonic, or perhaps Epicurean, philosopher who lived about A.D. 180. His name is famous as that of one of the bitterest enemies of Christianity. From a motive of curiosity, or, perhaps, in order to be better able to combat the new religion, Celsus caused himself to be initiated into the mysteries of Christianity, and to be received into that sec...

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Carneădes in Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities

（Καρνεάδης). A philosopher of Cyrené in Africa, founder of a sect called the Third or New Academy. The Athenians sent him with Diogenes the Stoic, and Critolaüs the Peripatetic, as ambassador to Rome, B.C. 155. Carneades excelled in the vehement and rapid, Critolaüs in the correct and elegant, and Diogenes in the simple and modest, kind of eloquenc...

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Carneades in Wikipedia

Carneades (Greek: Καρνεάδης, Karneadēs, "of Carnea"; 214/3-129/8 BC[1]) was an Academic skeptic born in Cyrene and the first of the philosophers to pronounce the failure of metaphysicians who endeavored to discover rational meanings in religious beliefs. By the time of 159 BC he had started to refute all previous dogmatic doctrines, especially Stoi...

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Chares of Athens in Wikipedia

Chares (Greek: Χάρης, lived in the 4th century BC) and was an Athenian general, who for a number of years was a key commander of Athenian forces. First campaigns Chares, an Athenian general, is first mentioned in historical records in 367 BC, when he was sent to the aid of the city of Phlius. The city was hard pressed by the Arcadians and Argives,...

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Callĭphon in Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities

（Καλλιφῶν). A painter, a native of Samos, who decorated with pictures the Temple of Artemis at Ephesus. The subjects of his pieces were taken from the Iliad (Pausan. v. 19)....

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Cephisodotus in Wikipedia

Cephisodotus (general) Cephisodotus (Greek: Κηφισόδοτος; lived 4th century BC) was an Athenian general and orator, who was sent with Callias, Autocles, and others in 371 BC to negotiate peace with Sparta.[1] Again, in 369 BC, when the Spartan ambassadors had come to Athens to settle the terms of the desired alliance between the states, and the Ath...

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Chares of Lindos in Wikipedia

Chares of Lindos (fl. in 280 BC) was a Greek sculptor born on the island of Rhodes. He was a pupil of Lysippus. [1] Chares constructed the Colossus of Rhodes in 282 BC, an enormous bronze statue of the sun god Helios and also the patron god of Rhodes.[2] The statue was built to commemorate Rhodes' victory over the invading Macedonians in 305 BC, le...

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Bias of Priene in Wikipedia

Bias (Greek: Βίας ο Πριηνεὺς, 6th century BCE), the son of Teutamus and a citizen of Priene was a Greek philosopher. Satyrus puts him as the wisest of all the Seven Sages of Greece. One of the examples of his goodness is the legend that says that he paid a ransom for some women who had been taken prisoner. After educating them as his own daughters...

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Boethus of Sidon in Wikipedia

Boethus of Sidon (Greek: Βόηθος; c. 75-c. 10 BC) was a Peripatetic philosopher from Sidon, who lived towards the end of the 1st century BC.[1] As he was a disciple of Andronicus of Rhodes,[2] he must have travelled at an early age to Rome and Athens, in which cities Andronicus is known to have taught. Strabo, who mentions him and his brother Diodo...

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