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Antyllus in Wikipedia

Antyllus was a Greek surgeon, who lived in the 2nd century AD in Rome. He is most notable for his method of treatment of aneurysms. He described the types of aneurysms, and created a taxonomy related to the lesions' potential for rupture.[1] He lived in the same era as Galen, and as Galen was dominant figure in the field of medicine, Antyllus excel...

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Apollodorus of Damascus in Wikipedia

Apollodorus of Damascus was a Greek engineer, architect, designer and sculptor who flourished during the 2nd century AD, from Damascus, Roman Syria.[2] He was a favourite of Trajan, for whom he constructed Trajan's Bridge over the Danube for the 105-106 campaign in Dacia. He also designed the Forum Trajanum and Trajan's Column within the city of Ro...

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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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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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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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Apollonius of Rhodes in Wikipedia

Apollonius Rhodius, also known as Apollonius of Rhodes (Latin; Greek Ἀπολλώνιος Ῥόδιος Apollṓnios Rhódios), early 3rd century BCE - after 246 BCE, was a librarian at the Library of Alexandria. He is best known for his epic poem the Argonautica, which told the mythological story of Jason and the Argonauts' quest for the Golden Fleece, and which is o...

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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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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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