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Areus in Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities

（Ἀρεύς). The name of two kings of Sparta, the first reigning B.C. 309-265; and the second, as a child, about B.C. 264-256....

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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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Archelāus in Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities

A king of Macedonia (B.C. 413-399), who improved the coudition of the country and patronized art and literature....

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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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Apellĭcon in Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities

（Ἀπελλικῶν). A Peripatetic philosopher, born at Teos in Asia Minor, and one of those to whom we owe the preservation of many of the works of Aristotle. The latter, on his deathbed, confided his works to Theophrastus, his favourite pupil and Theophrastus, by his will, left them to Neleus, who had them conveyed to Scepsis, in Troas, his native city. ...

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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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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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