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Aristides Quintilianus in Wikipedia

Aristides Quintilianus (Greek: Ἀριστείδης Κοϊντιλιανός) was the Greek author of an ancient musical treatise, Perì musikês (Περί Μουσικῆς, i.e. On Music), who probably lived in the third century AD. According to Marcus Meibomius, in whose collection (Antiq. Musicae Auc. Septem, 52) this work is printed, it contains everything on music that is to be ...

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Archidamus I in Wikipedia

Archidamus I (Ἀρχίδαμος) was a king of Sparta, 12th of the Eurypontids. He was a son of Anaxidamus and contemporary with the Tegeatan War, which followed soon after the end of the second Messenian, in 668 BC. (Paus. iii. 7. § 69 comp. 3. § 5.)...

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Archytas in Wikipedia

Archytas (Greek: Ἀρχύτας; 428–347 BC) was an Ancient Greek philosopher, mathematician, astronomer, statesman, and strategist. He was a scientist of the Pythagorean school and famous for being the reputed founder of mathematical mechanics, as well as a good friend of Plato. Life and work Archytas was born in Tarentum, Magna Graecia (now southern It...

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Aristagoras in Wikipedia

Aristagoras was the leader of Miletus in the late 6th century BC and early 5th century BC. Background Aristagoras served as deputy governor of Miletus, a polis on the western coast of Anatolia around 500 BC. He was the son of Molpagoras, and son-in-law (and nephew) of Histiaeus, whom the Persians had set up as tyrant of Miletus. Aristagoras contro...

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Aristides in Wikipedia

Aristides (or Aristeides from the Greek: Ἀριστείδης, 530 BC - 468 BC) was an Athenian statesman, nicknamed "the Just". Biography He was the son of Lysimachus, and a member of a family of moderate fortune. Of his early life we are only told that he became a follower of the statesman Cleisthenes and sided with the aristocratic party in Athenian poli...

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Archidamus II in Wikipedia

Archidamus II was a king of Sparta who reigned from approximately 476 BC to 427 BC. He was of the Eurypontid dynasty. His father was Zeuxidamus (called Cyniscus by many Spartans), who died before his father, Leotychidas, after having his son, Archidamus. Leotychides, when Zeuxidamus was taken from him, married a second wife, named Eurydame, the si...

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Arctinus of Miletus in Wikipedia

Arctinus of Miletus or Arctinus Milesius (Ἀρκτῖνος Μιλήσιος) was a Greek epic poet whose reputation is purely legendary, as none of his works survive. Traditionally dated between 775 BC and 741 BC, he was said to have been a pupil of Homer. Phaenias of Eresus placed him in the 7th century BC and claimed that he was defeated by Lesches of Pyrrha in ...

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Arcesilaus in Wikipedia

Arcesilaus (Greek: Ἀρκεσίλαος) (316/5-241/0 BC[1]) was a Greek philosopher and founder of the Second or Middle Academy-the phase of Academic skepticism. Arcesilaus succeeded Crates as the sixth head (scholarch) of the Academy c. 264 BC.[2] He did not preserve his thoughts in writing, so his opinions can only be gleaned second-hand from what is pres...

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Aristander in Wikipedia

Aristander of Telmessos (Greek: Αρίστανδρος ο Τελμησσεύς; born ca. 380 BC, fl. 2nd half of 4th century BCE), a Greek from Caria, was Alexander the Great's favorite seer. Aristander was already in Philip's entourage in 357/6, when he correctly interpreted a dream as revealing Olympias' pregnancy. The ancient sources place him interpreting omens from...

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Aristippus in Wikipedia

Aristippus (Greek: Ἀρίστιππος) of Cyrene, (c. 435-c. 356 BCE), was the founder of the Cyrenaic school of Philosophy.[1] He was a pupil of Socrates, but adopted a very different philosophical outlook, teaching that the goal of life was to seek pleasure by adapting circumstances to oneself and by maintaining proper control over both adversity and pro...

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