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Antiphanes in Wikipedia

Antiphanes (comic poet) Antiphanes, the most important writer of the Middle Attic comedy with the exception of Alexis, lived from about 408 to 334 BCE. He was apparently a foreigner (perhaps from Cius, on the Propontis, Smyrna or Rhodes)[1] who settled in Athens , where he began to write about 387. He was extremely prolific: more than 200 of the 3...

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Anytos in Wikipedia

In Greek mythology, Anytos was one of the offspring of the Titans. He is thought to have remained neutral in the Titan-War, as he was not cast into Tartaros....

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Apollodorus of Seleucia in Wikipedia

Apollodorus (Greek: Ἀπολλόδωρος) of Seleucia, (flourished c. 150 BC), was a Stoic philosopher, and a pupil of Diogenes of Babylon. He wrote a number of handbooks (Greek: εισαγωγαι) on Stoicism, including ones on Ethics and Physics which are frequently cited by Diogenes Laertius.[1] Apollodorus is famous for describing Cynicism as "the short path ...

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Apollophanes in Wikipedia

Apollophanes Soter (reigned circa 35 BCE - 25 BCE) was an Indo-Greek king in the area of eastern and central Punjab in modern India and Pakistan. Little is known about him, except for some of his remaining coins. The dating is Osmund Bopearachchi's, but RC Senior suggests approximately the same dates. Earlier scholars, such as Professor Ahmed Hasan...

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Apelles in Wikipedia

Another Apelles was the founder of a Gnostic sect in the 2nd century; Apelles (gnostic). "Apelles" was also a pseudonym used by the Jesuit Christoph Scheiner in writing on sunspots. The gossamer-winged butterfly genus Apelles is nowadays included in Glaucopsyche. Reconstruction of the mosaic depiction of the Battle of Issus after a painting by A...

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Antiochus XIII Asiaticus in Wikipedia

Antiochus XIII Dionysus Philopator Kallinikos, known as Asiaticus was one of the last rulers of the Greek Seleucid kingdom. He was son of king Antiochus X Eusebes and the Ptolemaic princess Cleopatra Selene, who acted as regent for the boy after his father's death sometime between 92 and 85 BC. Some time after Tigranes had conquered Syria (83 BC),...

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Antiphilus in Wikipedia

Antiphilus was an ancient Greek painter from Naucratis,[1][2] Egypt, in the age of Alexander the Great. He worked for Philip II of Macedon and Ptolemy I of Egypt. Thus he was a contemporary of Apelles, whose rival he is said to have been, but he seems to have worked in quite another style. Quintilian speaks of his facility: the descriptions of his ...

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Apollodorus in Wikipedia

Apollodorus of Athens (Greek: Ἀπολλόδωρος ὁ Ἀθηναῖος; born ca. 180 BC, died after 120 BC) son of Asclepiades, was a Greek scholar and grammarian. He was a pupil of Diogenes of Babylon, Panaetius the Stoic, and the grammarian Aristarchus of Samothrace. He left, or fled, Alexandria around BC 146, most likely for Pergamum, and eventually settled in At...

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Antipater II of Macedon in Wikipedia

Antipater II of Macedon (Greek: Ἀντίπατρος Β' ὁ Μακεδών), was the son of Cassander and Thessalonica of Macedon, who was a half-sister of Alexander the Great. He was king of Macedon from 297 BC until 294 BC, jointly with his brother Alexander V. Eventually, he murdered his mother and ousted his brother from the throne. Alexander turned to Pyrrhus an...

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Apollos in Wikipedia

Saint Apollos (Απολλως; contracted from Apollonius) was a 1st century Alexandrian Jewish Christian mentioned several times in the New Testament. After the Christian couple Priscilla and Aquila corrected his incomplete Christian doctrine, his special gifts in preaching Jesus persuasively made him an important person in the congregation at Corinth, G...

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