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Antĭphon in Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities

Antĭphon （Ἀντιφῶν). The earliest of the ten great Attic orators, born B.C. 480 in Attica, son of the sophist Sophilus, to whom he owed his training. He was the founder of political eloquence as an art, which he taught with great applause in his own school of rhetoric; and he was the first who wrote out speeches for others to deliver in court, thoug...

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Apollodōrus in Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities

A Greek architect of Damascus, who lived for a time at Rome, where, among other things, he built Trajan's Forum and Trajan's Column. He was first banished and then put to death under Hadrian, A.D. 129, having incurred that emperor's anger by the freedom of his criticisms. We have a work by him on engines of war, addressed to Hadrian....

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Archimēdes in Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities

（Ἀρχιμήδης). A remarkable mathematician and inventor, born at Syracuse in B.C. 287. After spending a long time in travel and study he returned to his native city, and there introduced a great number of inventions, among them the endless screw, first used by him in launching large ships; and the so-called Archimedean screw (cochlea), used in drainin...

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Androtion in Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities

（Ἀνδροτίων). A Greek historian, an Athenian, and a pupil of Isocrates, who was accused of making an illegal proposal, and went into banishment at Megara. We still have the speech composed by Demosthenes for one of the accusers. At Megara he wrote a history of Attica (see Atthis) in at least twelve books, one of the best of that class of writings; b...

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Antigĕnes in Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities

Antigĕnes （Ἀντιγένης). A general of Alexander the Great, on whose death he received the satrapy of Susiana and supported Eumenes. On the defeat of the latter, Antigenes was seized and burned alive by his enemy Antigonus, B.C. 316 (Plut. Alex. 70)....

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Antonīnus in Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities

Liberālis. A mythological writer supposed to have lived in the age of the Antonines, and to have been a freedman of one of them. He wrote a work entitled A Collection of Metamorphoses (Μεταμορφωσέων Συναγωγή), in forty-one chapters. Edition by Westermann (Brunswick, 1839). See Oder, De Antonino Liberali (1886)....

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Apsĭnes in Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities

（Ἀψίνης). A Greek rhetorician of Gadara, who taught at Athens in the first half of the third century A.D., and wrote a valuable treatise on rhetoric, and also a work on the questions usually discussed in the schools of the rhetoricians. These two treatises are printed in the Rhetores Graeci, by Walz, ix. p. 534 foll....

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Antisthĕnes in Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities

Antisthĕnes （Ἀντισθένης). A Greek philosopher of Athens, born about B.C. 440, but only a half-citizen, because his mother was a Thracian. He was in his youth a pupil of Gorgias, and himself taught for a time as a sophist, till, towards middle life, he attached himself to Socrates, and became his bosom friend. After the death of Socrates, in B.C. 39...

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Apollonius in Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities

Apollonius Rhodius. A Greek scholar and epic poet of the Alexandrian Age, born at Alexandria about B.C. 260. A pupil of Callimachus, he wrote a long epic, Argonautica, in four books, in which, departing from his master's taste for the learned and artificial, he aimed at all the simplicity of Homer. The party of Callimachus rejected the poem, and Ap...

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Archȳtas in Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities

A musician of Mitylené, mentioned by Diogenes Laertius as having written a treatise on agriculture. A famous Tarentine astronomer and geometrician, the son of Hestiaeus. He was seven times elected governor of his native city. He is said to have been instrumental in rescuing Plato (q.v.) from the tyrant Dionysius. Many stories are told of his ingen...

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