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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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Archestratus in Wikipedia

Archestratus (Archestratos) was an Ancient Greek poet of Gela or Syracuse, in Sicily, who wrote some time in the mid 4th century BCE. His humorous didactic poem Hedypatheia ("Life of Luxury"), written in hexameters, advises a gastronomic reader on where to find the best food in the Mediterranean world. The writer, who was styled in antiquity the He...

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Archimedes in Wikipedia

Archimedes of Syracuse (Greek: Ἀρχιμήδης; c. 287 BC – c. 212 BC) was a Greek mathematician, physicist, engineer, inventor, and astronomer. Although few details of his life are known, he is regarded as one of the leading scientists in classical antiquity. Among his advances in physics are the foundations of hydrostatics, statics and an explanation o...

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Aristaeus in Wikipedia

A minor god in Greek mythology, which we read largely through Athenian writers, Aristaeus or Aristaios (Greek: Ἀρισταῖος), "ever close follower of the flocks", was the culture hero credited with the discovery of many useful arts, including bee-keeping;[1] he was the son of Apollo and the huntress Cyrene. Aristeus ("the best") was a cult title in ma...

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Antipater of Tarsus in Wikipedia

Antipater (Greek: Ἀντίπατρος; died 130/129 BCE[1]) of Tarsus was a Stoic philosopher. He was the pupil and successor of Diogenes of Babylon as leader of the Stoic school, and was the teacher of Panaetius. He wrote works on the gods and on divination, and in ethics he took a higher moral ground than that of his teacher Diogenes. Life Very little is...

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Apollocrates in Wikipedia

Apollocrates was the son of Dionysius II of Syracuse. Two years after Dion and Heraclides conquered Syracuse in 357 BC, Dion maintained control of the fortress of Ortygia. As supplies ran out, Apollocrates capitulated to Dion, who allowed him and his mother Doris to sail to join his father in Italy. According to Theopompus, Book 39, F185: "Apollo...

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Antonius Diogenes in Wikipedia

Antonius Diogenes was the author of a Greek romance, whom scholars have placed in the 2nd century CE. His age was unknown even to Photius, who has preserved an outline of his romance.[1] It consisted of twenty-four books, was written in the form of a dialogue about travels, and bore the title of The incredible wonders beyond Thule (Tα υπερ Θoυλην α...

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Apollonios of Kition in Wikipedia

Apollonios of Kition (or Apollonius of Citium, Greek: Απολλώνιος ο Κιτιεύς), was a physician (c.60 BC) belonging to the Empiric school of thought. He studied medicine in Alexandria under the surgeon Zopyrus, but he lived in Kition - modern day Larnaca.[1] Another theory is that he studied medicine in Kition[2] although it is not clear whether a med...

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Araros in Wikipedia

Araros (Greek: Ἀραρὼς) , son of Aristophanes, was an Athenian comic poet of the middle comedy. His brothers Philippus, and Nicostratus were also comic poets. Aristophanes first introduced him to public notice as the principal actor (hypocrites) in his play Plutus (388 BC), the last comedy which he exhibited in his own name : he wrote two more comed...

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Antipater of Thessalonica in Wikipedia

Antipater of Thessalonica was the author of over a hundred epigrams in the Greek Anthology. He is the most copious and perhaps the most interesting of the Augustan epigrammatists. He lived under the patronage of Lucius Calpurnius Piso (consul in B.C. 15 and then proconsul of Macedonia for several years), who appointed him governor of Thessalonica. ...

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