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Ameipsias in Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities

Ameipsias （Ἀμειψίας). A Greek poet of the Old Comedy, contemporary with Aristophanes, whom he twice overcame. Of his plays only slight fragments remain (Ran. 14)....

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Anaximenes in Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities

A Greek philosopher of Miletus, a younger contemporary and pupil of Anaximander, who died about B.C. 502. He supposed air to be the fundamental principle, out of which everything arose by rarefaction and condensation. This doctrine he expounded in a work, now lost, written in the Ionic dialect....

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Agis III in Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities

Son of Archidamus III., reigned B.C. 338-330. He attempted to overthrow the Macedonian power in Europe while Alexander the Great was in Asia, but was defeated and killed in battle by Antipater in the year 330....

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Amphis in Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities

Amphis （Ἄμφις). A Greek comic poet of Athens, contemporary with Plato. His works are lost (Ath. 1.8 foll., Mein.)....

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Andocĭdes in Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities

Andocĭdes （Ἀνδοκίδης). The second in order of time in the roll of great Attic orators. He was born B.C. 439, and belonged by birth to the aristocratic party, but fell out with it in B.C. 415, when he was involved in the famous trial for mutilating the statues of Hermes, and, to save his own and his kinsmen's lives, betrayed his aristocratic accompl...

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Aenesidēmus in Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities

（Αἰνησίδημος). A skeptic, born at Cnossus, in Crete, who lived a little later than the time of Cicero. He wrote eight books on the doctrines of Pyrrho (q.v.), of which extracts may be found in Photius, Cod. 212....

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Ariston of Sparta in Wikipedia

Ariston (Ἀρίστων) was a king of Sparta, 14th of the Eurypontids, son of Agesicles, contemporary of Anaxandrides. He ascended the Spartan throne before 560 BC, and died somewhat before (Paus. iii. 7), or at any rate not long after, 510 BC. He thus reigned about 50 years, and was of high reputation, of which the public prayer for a son for him, when...

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Artemidorus in Wikipedia

Artemidorus Daldianus or Ephesius was a professional diviner and author known for an extant five-volume Greek work Oneirocritica, (English: The Interpretation of Dreams). Artemidorus was surnamed Ephesius, from Ephesus, on the west coast of Asia Minor, but was also called Daldianus, from his mother's native city, Daldis in Lycia. He lived in the se...

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Arius Didymus in Wikipedia

Arius Didymus (Areius, Greek: Ἄρειος; 1st century BC-1st century AD) was a citizen of Alexandria, and a Stoic philosopher in the time of Augustus, who esteemed him so highly, that after the conquest of Alexandria, he declared that he spared the city chiefly for the sake of Arius.[1] Arius as well as his two sons, Dionysius and Nicanor, are said to ...

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Artemidōrus in Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities

The Geographer, a native of Ephesus, who travelled about B.C. 100 through the countries bordering on the Mediterranean and part of the Atlantic coast, and wrote a long work on his researches, the Γεωγραφούμενα, in eleven books, as well as an abstract of the same. Of both works, which were much consulted by later geographers, we have only fragments....

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