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Aristion in Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities

（Ἀριστίων). A philosopher who, by the influence of Mithridates, made himself tyrant of Athens. He committed suicide, on the capture of Athens by Sulla in B.C. 87....

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Mark Antony in Roman Biography

Antonius, (Marcus,) surnamed the Triumvir, called in English Mark Antony, [Fr. Marc-Antoine, miRk'- ON'twin',] a famous Roman general and politician, a son of M. Antonius Creticus, was born about 83 B.C. His mother was Julia, a daughter of L. Julius Caesar, who was consul in 90 B.C. He distinguished himself in his youth by his talents, extravagance...

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Of Chios, a Stoic philosopher, and a disciple of Zeno, who flourished about B.C. 260....

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Aristeas in Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities

（Ἀριστέας). An epic poet of Proconnesus, of whose life we have only fabulous accounts. His date is quite uncertain. He is represented as a magician, whose soul could leave and re-enter its body according to its pleasure. He was connected with the worship of Apollo, which he was said to have introduced at Metapontum. He wrote an epic poem on the Ari...

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Ariston in Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities

A Peripatetic philosopher of Iulis, in the island of Ceos, who succeeded Lycon as head of the Peripatetic school, about B.C. 230....

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Antinoüs in Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities

A youth of extraordinary beauty, born at Claudiopolis in Bithynia, was the favourite of the emperor Hadrian, and his companion in all his journeys (Pausan. viii. 9, 7). He was drowned in the Nile, A.D. 122. The grief of the emperor knew no bounds. He enrolled Antinoüs among the gods, caused a temple to be erected to him at Mantinea, and founded the...

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Apelles in Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities

（Ἀπελλῆς). The most celebrated of Grecian painters, born, most probably, at Colophon in Ionia, though some ancient writers call him a Coan and others an Ephesian. He was the contemporary of Alexander the Great (B.C. 336-323), who entertained so high an opinion of him that he was the only person whom Alexander would permit to paint his portrait. We ...

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Arīon in Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities

（Ἀρίων). A Greek poet and musician, of Methymna in Lesbos, who flourished about B.C. 625. In the course of a roving life he spent a considerable time at the court of Periander, tyrant of Corinth. Here he first gave the dithyramb (q.v.) an artistic form, and was therefore regarded as the inventor of that style in general. He is best known by the sto...

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Arcesilāus in Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities

Son of Battus, king of Cyrené, who was driven from his kingdom in a sedition, and died B.C. 575. The second of this name died B.C. 550 (Herod.iv. 159). A philosopher, born at Pitané, in Aeolis, the founder of what was termed the Middle Academy. The period of his birth is usually given as B.C. 316. Arcesilaüs at first applied himself to rhetoric, b...

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Antiŏchus in Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities

Soter (reigned B.C. 280-261), the son of Selencus I., the founder of the Syrian kingdom of the Seleucidae. He married his stepmother Stratonicé, with whom he had fallen violently in love, and whom his father surrendered to him. He fell in battle against the Gauls in 261. Theos (B.C. 261-246), son and successor of the preceding. The Milesians gave ...

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