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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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Adriānus in Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities

A Roman emperor, born at Rome A.D. 76. He lost his father when ten years of age, and had for his guardians Trajan, who was his relation, and Cornelius Tatianus, a Roman knight. His father's name was Aelius Hadrianus Afer. It is conjectured that the surname of Afer was given the latter because he had been governor of Africa, and that he is the same ...

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Agis in Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities

（Ἆγις). The name of several kings of Sparta. The son of Eurysthenes, the founder of the family of the Agidae....

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Aristotle in Wikipedia

Aristotle (Greek: Ἀριστοτέλης, Aristotélēs) (384 BC – 322 BC)[1] was a Greek philosopher, a student of Plato and teacher of Alexander the Great. His writings cover many subjects, including physics, metaphysics, poetry, theater, music, logic, rhetoric, politics, government, ethics, biology, and zoology. Together with Plato and Socrates (Plato's teac...

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Arsinŏë in Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities

The daughter of Meleager, and mother of Ptolemy I. of Egypt, by Philip, father of Alexander. During her pregnancy she was married to Lagus. The daughter of Ptolemy I. of Egypt and Berenicé. She married Lysimachus, king of Thrace, who was already advanced in years, by whom she had several children. Lysimachus, setting out for Asia, left her in Mace...

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Aristo of Ceos in Wikipedia

Aristo of Ceos (Greek: Ἀρίστων ὁ Κέως; fl. c. 225 BC) was a Peripatetic philosopher and a native of the island of Ceos, where his birthplace was the town of Ioulis. He is not to be confused with Aristo of Chios, a Stoic philosopher of the mid 3rd century BC. He was a pupil of Lyco,[1] who had succeeded Strato as the head of the Peripatetic school ...

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Arsinoe II in Wikipedia

Arsinoe II (Greek: Ἀρσινόη, 316 BC-July 270 BC), was queen of Thrace, Asia Minor and Macedonia as wife of King Lysimachus (Greek: Λυσίμαχος), and later co-ruler of Egypt with her brother and husband Ptolemy II Philadelphus (Greek: Πτολεμαῖος Φιλάδελφος, which means "Ptolemy the sibling-loving"). She was the daughter of king Ptolemy I Soter (Greek: ...

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