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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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Aristarchus of Samos in Wikipedia

Aristarchus (Greek: Ἀρίσταρχος, Arístarchos; 310 BC – ca. 230 BC) was a Greek astronomer and mathematician, born on the island of Samos, in Greece. He presented the first known heliocentric model of the solar system, placing the Sun, not the Earth, at the center of the known universe. He was influenced by the Pythagorean Philolaus of Croton, but, i...

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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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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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Archidamus III in Wikipedia

Archidamus III (Ancient Greek: Αρχίδαμος), the son of Agesilaus II, was king of Sparta from 360 BC to 338 BC. He led the Spartan forces both before and during his rule. Archidamus headed the force sent to aid the Spartan army after its defeat by the Thebans at the Battle of Leuctra in 371 BC and was commander later during the fighting in the Pelop...

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Aretaeus of Cappadocia in Wikipedia

Aretaeus (Ἀρεταῖος), is one of the most celebrated of the ancient Greek physicians, of whose life, however, few particulars are known. There is some uncertainty regarding both his age and country, but it seems probable that he practised in the 1st century CE, during the reign of Nero or Vespasian. He is generally styled "the Cappadocian" (Καππάδοξ)...

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Antipater in Wikipedia

Antipater (Greek: Ἀντίπατρος Antipatros; ca. 397 BC - 319 BC) was a Macedonian general and a supporter of kings Philip II of Macedon and Alexander the Great. In 320 BC, he became regent of all of Alexander's empire. Antipater was born as one of the sons of a Greek Macedonian nobleman called Iolaus or Iollas. [1] [2] According to Theocritus (17.61),...

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Apollodorus of Pergamon in Wikipedia

Apollodorus of Pergamon, one of the two most prominent teachers of rhetoric in the 1st century BC along with Theodorus of Gadara. His most famous student became the first Roman emperor Caesar Augustus. Students of Apollodorus were commonly referred to as Apollodoreans, while students of Theodorus were known as Theodoreans....

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Apollonius of Tyana in Wikipedia

Apollonius of Tyana (Greek: Ἀπολλώνιος ὁ Τυανεύς; ca. 15?–ca. 100? AD[2]) was a Greek Neopythagorean philosopher from the town of Tyana in the Roman province of Cappadocia in Asia Minor. Little is certainly known about him. Being a first century orator and philosopher around the time of Christ, he was compared to Jesus of Nazareth by Christians in ...

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Anyte of Tegea in Wikipedia

Anyte of Tegea (fl. early 3rd century BC) was an Arcadian poet, admired by her contemporaries and later generations for her charming epigrams and epitaphs. Antipater of Thessalonica listed her as one of the nine earthly muses. According to some sources, she was the leader of a school of poetry and literature on Pelopponesus, which also included th...

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