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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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Autocrates in Wikipedia

Autocrates was an Ancient Athenian poet of the old comedy. One of his plays is mentioned by Suidas and Aelian.[1] He also wrote several tragedies. [2] The Autocrates quoted by Athenaeus[3] seems to have been a different person....

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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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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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Athenaeus in Wikipedia

Athenaeus (Ancient Greek Ἀθήναιος Nαυκρατίτης - Athếnaios Naukratítês, Latin Athenaeus Naucratita), of Naucratis in Egypt, Greek rhetorician and grammarian, flourished about the end of the 2nd and beginning of the 3rd century A.D. The Suda says only that he lived in the times of Marcus Aurelius, but the contempt with which he speaks of Commodus, wh...

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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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Autolycus of Pitane in Wikipedia

Autolycus of Pitane (c. 360 BC – c. 290 BC) was a Greek astronomer, mathematician, and geographer. The lunar crater Autolycus was named in his honour. Life and work Autolycus was born in Pitane, a town of Aeolis within Western Anatolia. Of his personal life nothing is known, although he was a contemporary of Aristotle and his works seem to have be...

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Athenagoras of Athens in Wikipedia

Athenagoras (Greek: Ἀθηναγόρας ὁ Ἀθηναῖος; ca. 133-190) was a Christian apologist who lived during the second half of the 2nd century of whom little is known for certain, besides that he was Athenian (though possibly not originally from Athens), a philosopher, and a convert to Christianity. There is some evidence that he was a Platonist before his ...

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