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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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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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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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Apollodorus of Carystus in Wikipedia

Apollodorus of Carystus in Euboea was one of the most important writers of the Attic New Comedy, who flourished in Athens between 300 and 260 B.C. He is to be distinguished from the older Apollodorus of Gela (342-290), also a writer of comedy, a contemporary of Menander. He wrote 47 comedies and obtained the prize five times. Terence borrowed his H...

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Apollonius of Perga in Wikipedia

Apollonius of Perga [Pergaeus] (Ancient Greek: Ἀπολλώνιος) (ca. 262 BC–ca. 190 BC) was a Greek geometer and astronomer noted for his writings on conic sections. His innovative methodology and terminology, especially in the field of conics, influenced many later scholars including Ptolemy, Francesco Maurolico, Isaac Newton, and René Descartes. It wa...

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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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Antoninus Liberalis in Wikipedia

Antoninus Liberalis was an Ancient Greek grammarian who probably flourished between AD 100 and 300. His only surviving work is the Metamorphoses, (Μεταμορφώσεων Συναγωγή, Metamorphoseon Synagoge, literally "Collection of Transformations"), a collection of forty-one very briefly summarised tales about mythical metamorphoses effected by offended dei...

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Antipater of Tyre in Wikipedia

Antipater (Greek: Ἀντίπατρος; 1st century BC) of Tyre was a Stoic philosopher, and a contemporary of Cato the Younger and Cicero.[1] Antipater is said to have befriended Cato when the latter was a young man.[2] He appears to be the same as the Antipater of Tyre mentioned by Strabo.[3] He lived after, or was at least younger than, Panaetius. Cicero...

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Aratus in Wikipedia

Aratus (Greek: Ἄρατος ὁ Σολεύς; ca. 315 BC/310 BC – 240 BC) was a Greek didactic poet. His major extant work is his hexameter poem Phaenomena (Φαινόμενα "Appearances"), the first half of which is a verse setting of a lost work of the same name by Eudoxus of Cnidus. It describes the constellations and other celestial phenomena. The second half is ca...

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