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Battus in Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities

A Lacedaemonian who, in B.C. 631, built the town of Cyrené with a colony from the island of Thera. His proper name was Aristoteles, but he received the name of Battus from his having an impediment in his speech (βατταρίζω=to stutter), though Herodotus (iv. 155) says that βάττος is a derivative from a Libyan dialect, and means "king." He reigned ov...

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Bacchylĭdes in Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities

（Βακχυλίδης). A Greek lyric poet who flourished in the middle of the fifth century B.C. He was a native of Iulis in the island of Ceos, the nephew and pupil of Simonides, and a contemporary of Pindar. For a long time he lived with his uncle at the court of Hiero, tyrant of Syracuse. He also resided for a considerable time at Athens, where he won ma...

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Berenice I of Egypt in Wikipedia

Berenice I (c. 340 BC-between 279-274 BC) was a Greek Macedonian noblewoman and through her marriage to Ptolemy I Soter, became the first Queen of the Ptolemaic dynasty of Egypt. Family Berenice was the daughter of an obscure local nobleman called Magas and Antigone [1]. Her maternal grandfather was a nobleman called Cassander who was the brother ...

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Basil of Caesarea in Wikipedia

Basil of Caesarea, also called Saint Basil the Great, (330[2] – January 1, 379) (Greek: Άγιος Βασίλειος ο Μέγας) was the bishop of Caesarea Mazaca in Cappadocia, Asia Minor (modern-day Turkey). He was an influential 4th century Christian theologian and monastic. Theologically, Basil was a supporter of the Nicene faction of the church, in opposition...

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Berenice I of Egypt in Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiq

The granddaughter of Cassander, brother of Antipater. She married Philip, a Macedonian, probably one of the officers of Alexander, and became by him the mother of many children, among whom were Magas, king of Cyrené, and Antigoné, whom she married to Pyrrhus, king of Epirus. She followed into Egypt Eurydicé, daughter of Antipater, who returned to t...

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Basilides in Wikipedia

Basilides (Βασιλείδης) was an early Gnostic religious teacher in Alexandria, Egypt[1] who taught from 117-138 AD[* 1], and was a pupil of either Menander[2], or an alleged interpreter of St. Peter named Glaucias[3], although modern scholarship rejects Glaucias.[4] The Acts of the Disputation with Manes state that for a time he taught among the Pers...

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Basilīdes in Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities

（Βασιλείδης). The father of Herodotus (q.v.)....

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Babrius in Wikipedia

Babrius was the author of a collection of fables written in Greek. He collected many of the fables that are known to us today simply as Aesop's fables (see Aesop's fables). Practically nothing is known of him. He is supposed to have been a Roman, whose gentile name was possibly Valerius, living in the East, probably in Syria, where the fables seem...

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Asclepiodŏtus in Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities

（Ἀσκληπιόδοτος). A Greek writer, pupil of the Stoic Posidonius of Rhodes, who died B.C. 51. On the basis of his lectures Asclepiodotus seems to have written the military treatise preserved under his name on the Macedonian military system....

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Athenagŏras in Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities

（Ἀθηναγόρας). A Father of the Church, a native of Athens, and in philosophy a Platonist. He wrote a treatise on the doctrine of the resurrection of the body and a defence of the Christians, blending the teachings of the Greek philosophers with those of the Church. He flourished in the second half of the second century....

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