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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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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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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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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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Anaxandrĭdes in Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities

A Rhodian Greek poet of the Middle Comedy, who flourished in B.C. 376. He is said to have been the first to make love affairs the theme of comedy. His plays are said to have been characterized by sprightliness and humour, but only fragments of them are now in existence....

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Anaxarchus in Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities

Anaxarchus （Ἀναξάρχος). A philosopher of Abdera, of the school of Democritus, who accompanied Alexander into Asia (B.C. 334). After the death of Alexander (B.C. 323), Anaxarchus was thrown by shipwreck into the power of Nicocreon, king of Cyprus, to whom he had given offence, and who had him pounded to death in a stone mortar....

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Alexander of Aphrodisias in Harpers Dictionary of Classical

Alexander of Aphrodisias in Caria, who flourished about A.D. 200, and is known as Exegetes, or "the expounder," for his exposition of the commentaries of Aristotle. He wrote also original works on Fate, Free Will, and the Soul, which, translated into Latin, were much read and studied in the Middle Ages. See Aristoteles....

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Alcibiădes in Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities

Alcibiădes （Ἀλκιβιάδης). The son of Clinias and Dinomaché, born at Athens about B.C. 450, and on the death of his father, in 447, brought up by his relation Pericles. He possessed a beautiful person, transcendent abilities, and great wealth. His youth was disgraced by his amours and debaucheries, and Socrates, who saw his vast capabilities, attempt...

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Alcĭphron in Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities

Alcĭphron （Ἀλκίφρων). A Greek rhetorician of the second century A.D., author of a collection of 118 fictitious Letters in three books. These, written in tolerably pure style and tasteful form, profess to be from sailors, peasants, parasites, and hetaerae. They are sketches of character, ingeniously conceived and carried out, which give us a vivid p...

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