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Aëtion in Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities

（Ἀετίων). A Greek painter in the latter half of the fourth century B.C., especially famed for his picture of Alexander the Great's wedding with the beautiful Roxana, B.C. 328. See Pictura....

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Aristonymus in Wikipedia

Aristonymus of Athens was sent by Plato to reform the constitution of the Arcadians. Aristonymus was the father of Clitophon....

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Arrian in Wikipedia

Lucius Flavius Arrianus 'Xenophon' (ca. 86 - 160), known in English as Arrian (Ἀρριανός), and Arrian of Nicomedia, was a Roman (ethnic Greek)[3] historian, public servant, a military commander and a philosopher of the 2nd-century Roman period. As with other authors of the Second Sophistic, Arrian wrote primarily in Attic (Indica is in Herodotus' Io...

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Artemisia in Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities

（τὰ Ἀρτεμίσια). Festivals celebrated in honour of Artemis (q.v.) in various parts of Greece in the spring....

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Alcman in Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities

（Ἀλκμάν, the Doric form of Ἀλκμαίων). The chief lyric poet of Sparta, though by birth a Lydian of Sardis. He was brought to Laconia as a slave when very young, and was emancipated by his master, who discovered his genius. He probably flourished about B.C. 631. He is said to have died, like Sulla , of the morbus pedicularis. Alcman is believed by so...

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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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