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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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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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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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Aristomenes in Wikipedia

Aristomenes was a king of Messenia, celebrated for his struggle with the Spartans in the Messenian Wars , and his resistance to them on Mount Ira for 11 years. At length the mountain fell to the enemy, while he escaped and was snatched up by the gods; he died at Rhodes. He was worshipped as a hero in Messenia and other places[1]. He is also, acco...

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Aristophanes in Wikipedia

Aristophanes (Ἀριστοφάνης, ca. 446 – ca. 386 BC), son of Philippus, of the deme Cydathenaus,[2] was a prolific and much acclaimed comic playwright of ancient Athens. Eleven of his forty plays survive virtually complete. These, together with fragments of some of his other plays, provide the only real examples of a genre of comic drama known as Old C...

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Arsinoe I in Wikipedia

Arsinoe I (Greek: Ἀρσινόη, 305/295 BC-247 BC) was queen of Egypt 284/1-ca. 274 BC and first wife of Ptolemy II of Egypt. Arsinoe I was the daughter of Lysimachus, king of Thrace, Asia Minor and Macedon. She bore Ptolemy II's the three children, including his successor Ptolemy III of Egypt. She married Ptolemy II in 284/1 BC. Around 274 BC, she was...

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Artemon in Wikipedia

Artemon (fl. ca. 230 AD), a prominent Christian teacher in Rome, who held Adoptionist, or Nontrinitarian views. We know little about his life for certain. He is mentioned as the leader of a nontrinitarian sect at Rome in the third century. He is spoken of by Eusebius of Caesarea[1] as the forerunner of Paul of Samosata, an opinion confirmed by the...

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Alexander Aetōlus in Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiqui

Alexander Aetōlus of Pleuron in Aetolia, who flourished about B.C. 280 at Alexandria, where he was employed by Ptolemy in arranging the tragedies and satyric dramas in the great library. He also wrote tragedies, short epics, elegies, and epigrams, of which fragments have been preserved. See Couat, La Poésie Alexandrine (Paris, 1882)....

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Aristo of Alexandria in Wikipedia

Aristo (or Ariston, Greek: Ἀρίστων) of Alexandria, was a Peripatetic philosopher, and a contemporary of Strabo in the 1st century. He wrote a work on the Nile.[1] Eudorus, a contemporary of his, wrote a book on the same subject, and the two works were so much alike, that the authors charged each other with plagiarism. Who was right is not said, tho...

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Aristophon in Wikipedia

Aristophon, the son and pupil of the elder Aglaophon, and brother of Polygnotus, was a native of Thasos. Pliny, who places him among the painters of the second rank, mentions two works by him- - 'Ancaeus wounded by the boar and mourned over by his mother Astypalaea;' and a picture containing figures of Priam, Helen, Ulysses, Deiphobus, Dolon, and C...

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