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Aristotĕles in Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities

（Ἀριστοτέλης). A great philosopher, the son of Nicomachus, court physician to Philip II. of Macedon, and born in B.C. 384 at Stagira, a small town in the Thracian Chalcidicé. He received from his father a training in the natural science of the day; but his philosophical education was obtained in Athens, where he was a pupil and companion of Plato d...

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Aristoxĕnus Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities

（Ἀριστόξενος). A Greek philosopher and musician, a native of Tarentum, and a pupil of Aristotle. He lived about B.C. 330, and was a prolific writer on various subjects, but most particularly on music. In contrast with the Pythagoreans, who referred everything to the relations of numbers, he regarded music as founded on the difference of tones as pe...

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Asclepiades in Wikipedia

Asclepiades may refer to: * Asclepiades of Phlius, (4th–3rd century BC) philosopher in the Eretrian school of Philosophy * Asclepiades of Samos, (3rd century BC) lyric poet * Asclepiades of Bithynia, (c. 125–40 BC) philosopher and physician * Asclepiades Pharmacion, (1st-2nd century) Greek physician * Asclepiades of Antioch, (d.217) Patriarch...

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Asclepiădes in Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities

（Ἀσκληπιάδης). A Greek poet, a native of Samos, and a younger contemporary of Theocritus. He was the author of thirty-nine epigrams, mostly erotic, in the Greek Anthology. The well-known Asclepiadean metre was perhaps named after him....

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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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Asclepiodotus (philosopher) in Wikipedia

Asclepiodotus Tacticus (Greek: Ἀσκληπιόδοτος; 1st century BC) was a Greek writer and philosopher, and a pupil of Posidonius.[1] According to Seneca, he wrote a work entitled Quaestionum Naturalium Causae.[1] A short work on military tactics survives. He is one of the earliest military writers whose studies on tactics have come down to us. He was no...

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Asius in Wikipedia

Asius (mythology) In Greek mythology, Asius refers to two people who fought during the Trojan War: * Asius (Asios-Ἄσιος) son of Hyrtacus was the leader of the Trojan allies that hailed from, on, or near the Dardanelles.[1] He was a son of Hyrtacus and Arisbe, the latter being first wife of King Priam and daughter of Merops. Asius led the conting...

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Aspasia in Wikipedia

Aspasia (ca. 470 BC[1][2]–ca. 400 BC,[1][3] Greek: Ἀσπασία) was a Milesian woman who was famous for her involvement with the Athenian statesman Pericles.[4] Very little is known about the details of her life. She spent most of her adult life in Athens, and she may have influenced Pericles and Athenian politics. She is mentioned in the writings of P...

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Aspasia in Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities

A celebrated woman, a native of Miletus. She came as an adventuress to Athens, in the time of Pericles, and, by the combined charms of her person, manners, and conversation, completely won the affection and esteem of that distinguished statesman. Her station had freed her from the restraints which custom laid on the education of the Athenian matron...

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Athenaeus in Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities

The Greek scholar, a native of Naucratis in Egypt. He was educated at Alexandria, where he lived from A.D. 170-230. After this he lived at Rome, and there wrote his Δειπνοσοφισταί (or "Banquet of the Learned"), in fifteen books. Of these the first, second, and part of the third are only preserved in a selection made in the eleventh century; the res...

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