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Aristaeus in Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities

（Ἀρισταῖος). A son of Apollo and Cyrené, was born in Libya. He afterwards went to Thrace, where he fell in love with Eurydicé, the wife of Orpheus. The latter, while fleeing from him, perished by the bite of a serpent; whereupon the Nymphs, in anger, destroyed the bees of Aristaeus. The way in which he recovered his bees is related in the Fourth Ge...

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Antiphănes in Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities

A comic poet of Rhodes, Smyrna, or Carystus, born B.C. 408, of parents in the low condition of slaves. This most prolific writer (he is said to have composed upwards of three hundred dramas), notwithstanding the meanness of his origin, was so popular in Athens that on his decease a decree was passed to remove his remains from Chios to that city, wh...

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Apion in Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities

A Greek grammarian of the first century A.D., a pupil of Didymus, and president of the philological school at Alexandria. He also worked for a time at Rome under Tiberius and Claudius. A vain, boastful man, he travelled about the Greek cities, giving popular lectures on Homer. Of his many writings we have only fragments left. The glosses on Homer t...

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Archestrătus in Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities

（Ἀρχέστρατος). A poet of Gela, in Sicily, who flourished about B.C. 318, and composed the humorous didatic poem Ἡδυπάθεια (Good Cheer), supposed to describe a gastronomic tour round the then known world, with playful echoes of Homer and the dogmatic philosophers. The numerous fragments display much talent and wit. It was imitated in Latin by Ennius...

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Aristagŏras in Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities

（Ἀρισταγόρας). A native of Miletus, brother-in-law of Histiaeus, and left by the latter during his stay at the Persian court in charge of the government of Miletus. Having failed in an attempt upon Naxos (B.C. 501), which he had promised to subdue for the Persians, and fearing the consequences of his failure, he induced the Ionian cities to revolt ...

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Anser in Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities

The word anser comes from Latin, meaning goose, and can refer to: * Anser (genus), the genus of grey geese * The star Alpha Vulpeculae, or Anser, in the constellation Vulpecula * ACME Anser, an amphibious jet fighter project of the 1950s * Sega Mega Anser, a Sega Mega Drive accessory * Analytic Services (ANSER), a security and defense analysi...

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Apollodōrus in Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities

A Greek poet of the New Comedy, born at Carystus, between B.C. 300 and 260. He wrote forty-seven plays, and won five victories. From him Terence borrowed the plots of his Phormio and Hecyra....

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Antiphĭlus in Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities

Antiphĭlus （Ἀντίφιλος). A Greek painter born in Egypt in the latter half of the fourth century B.C., a contemporary and rival of Apelles; he probably spent the last part of his life at the court of the first Ptolemy. The ancients praise the lightness and dexterity with which he handled subjects of high art, as well as scenes in daily life. Two of h...

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Archilŏchus in Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities

（Ἀρχίλοχος). A Greek lyric poet, especially eminent as a writer of lampoons. Born at Paros, he was the son of Telesicles by a slave-woman, but was driven by poverty to go with a colony to Thasos in B.C. 640 or 650. From Thasos he was soon driven by want, and by the enmities which his unrestrained passion for invective had drawn upon him. He seems t...

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Antalcĭdas in Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities

Antalcĭdas （Ἀνταλκίδας). A Spartan, the son of Leon, and chiefly known by the celebrated treaty concluded with Persia in B.C. 387, usually called the Peaceof Antalcidas, since it was the fruit of his diplomacy. According to this treaty all the Greek cities in Asia Minor were to belong to the Persian king. The Athenians were allowed to retain only L...

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