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Aristonicus in Wikipedia

Aristonicus of Alexandria Aristonicus (Latin; Greek Ἀριστόνικος Aristonikos) of Alexandria was a distinguished Greek grammarian who lived during the reigns of Augustus and Tiberius, contemporary with Strabo.[1] He taught at Rome, and wrote commentaries and grammatical treatises. Works He is mentioned as the author of several works, most of which w...

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Arius in Wikipedia

Arius (AD 250 or 256 – 336) was a Christian presbyter from Alexandria, Egypt. His teachings about the nature of the Godhead, which emphasized the Father's Divinity over the Son, and his opposition to the Athanasian or Trinitarian Christology, made him a controversial figure in the First Council of Nicea, convened by Roman Emperor Constantine in 325...

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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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Aeschylus in Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities

（Αἰσχύλος). The son of Euphorion, born in the Attic deme of Eleusis in the year B.C. 525. The period of his youth and early manhood coincides with the great national struggle which both Asiatic and European Hellas were forced to wage against the barbarians in the first twenty years of the fifth century. In this conflict he played the part of a brav...

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Arīus in Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities

（Ἄρειος). A celebrated writer and theologian of Alexandria, who denied the eternal divinity and consubstantiality of the Second Person of the Trinity. Though much persecuted for his heresy, he succeeded in winning the favour of the emperor Constantine, and supplanted his great opponent St. Athanasius. When about to enter the cathedral at Constantin...

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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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Aristonous of Pella in Wikipedia

Aristonous of Pella, son of Peisaeus, was one of the somatophylakes bodyguards of Alexander the Great, distinguished himself greatly on one occasion in India. On the death of Alexander, he was one of the first to propose that the supreme power should be entrusted to Perdiccas. He was subsequently the general of Olympias in the war with Cassander; a...

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Artemisia in Wikipedia

Artemisia can mean: Botany Artemisia (genus), a genus of plants including the sagebrush and wormwood Geography * Artemisia Geyser in Yellowstone National Park * Artemissia, Messinia, a Greek village west of Taygetus mountain in the Peloponnese * Artemisia, Zakynthos, a municipality on Zakynthos, Greece * Kingdom of Artemisia, a regional desig...

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Archelaus II of Macedon in Wikipedia

Archelaus II of Macedon (Greek: Ἀρχέλαος Βʹ ὁ Μακεδών) succeeded his father Archelaus I and reigned seven years. He died while out hunting, either by accident or assassination. He was brother of Orestes of Macedon. According to the Chronicon he reigned four years....

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Archigenes in Wikipedia

Archigenes ('Αρχιγένης), an eminent ancient Greek physician, who lived in the 1st and 2nd centuries. He was the most celebrated of the sect of the Eclectici, and was a native of Apamea in Syria; he practised at Rome in the time of Trajan, 98-117, where he enjoyed a very high reputation for his professional skill. He is, however, reprobated as havi...

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