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Aristobulus in Wikipedia

Aristobulus I Judah (Yehudah, Heb. יהודה) Aristobulus I (reigned 104-103 BC) was a king of the Hebrew Hasmonean Dynasty, and the eldest of the five sons of King John Hyrcanus. He was the first of the Hasmonean rulers to call himself "king." According to the Hebrew Scriptures, only descendants of Judah, or, more specifically, the House of David, wer...

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Archedemus of Tarsus in Wikipedia

Archedemus (Greek: Άρχέδημος) of Tarsus,[1] a Stoic philosopher who flourished c. 140 BC. Two of his works: On the Voice (Greek: Περὶ Φωνῆς) and On Elements (Greek: Περὶ Στοιχείων), are mentioned by Diogenes Laertius.[2] He is probably the same person as the Archedemus, whom Plutarch calls an Athenian, and who, he states, went into Parthia and fou...

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Archidamus IV in Wikipedia

Archidamus IV was a king of Sparta from 305 BC to c. 275 BC. He was the 23rd of the Eurypontids, the son of Eudamidas I and the grandson of Archidamus III. In 296 BC he was defeated by Demetrius Poliorcetes....

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Areus I in Wikipedia

Areus I (Ἄρειος Α') (d.265 BC) was Agiad King of Sparta from 309 to 265 BC, who died in battle near Corinth during the Chremonidean War. Military Success In 272 BC Areus I successfully repelled Pyrrhus of Epirus from Laconia. In 272 BC Pyrrhus of Epirus with 25,000 foot soldiers, 2,000 cavalry, and 24 elephants marched into Laconia on the false pr...

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Aristarchus of Samothrace in Wikipedia

Aristarchus of Samothrace (Ἀρίσταρχος, 220?–143 BC?) was a grammarian noted as the most influential of all scholars of Homeric poetry. He was the librarian of the library of Alexandria and seems to have succeeded his teacher Aristophanes of Byzantium in that role. He established the most historically important critical edition of the Homeric poems...

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Aristocles in Wikipedia

Aristocles may refer to: * Plato, the Greek philosopher * Aristocles of Messene (fl. 2nd century), philosopher * Aristocles (sculptors)...

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Archidamus V

Archidamus V was the 27th of the Kings of Sparta of the Eurypontid line, reigning 228-227 BC. He was the son of Eudamidas II and through him the grandson of Archidamus IV, after whom he was named. After his brother Agis IV was murdered in 241 BC, he fled to Messenia. In 228 (or 227) he was called back to Sparta by King Cleomenes III of the Agaid ...

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Areus II in Wikipedia

Areus II was King of Sparta from 262 to 254 BC....

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Aristarchus of Tegea in Wikipedia

Aristarchus or Aristarch of Tegea was a contemporary of Sophocles and Euripides, who lived to be a centenarian, to compose seventy pieces and to win two tragic victories. Only the titles of two of his plays, with a single line of the text, have come down to us, though Ennius freely borrowed from his play about Achilles. Among his merits seems to ha...

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Archelaus I of Macedon in Wikipedia

Archelaus I (Greek: Ἀρχέλαος Α΄) was king of Macedon from 413 to 399 BC, following the death of Perdiccas II. The son of Perdiccas by a slave woman, Archelaus obtained the throne by murdering his uncle, his cousin, and his half-brother, the legitimate heir, but proved a capable and beneficent ruler, known for the sweeping changes he made in state a...

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