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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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Anaximenes of Miletus in Wikipedia

Anaximenes (Greek: Άναξιμένης) of Miletus (fl. 585 BCE, d. 528 BCE) was an Archaic Greek Pre-Socratic philosopher also known as the father of philosophy active in the latter half of the 6th century BC.[1][2] One of the three Milesian philosophers, he is identified as a younger friend or student of Anaximander.[3][4] Anaximenes, like others in his s...

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Antiochus IX Cyzicenus in Wikipedia

Antiochus IX Eusebes, ruler of the Greek Seleucid kingdom, was the son of Antiochus VII Sidetes and Cleopatra Thea. Upon the death of his father in Parthia and his uncle Demetrius II Nicator's return to power (129 BC), his mother sent him to Cyzicus on the Bosporus, thus giving him his nickname. He returned to Syria in 116 BC to claim the Seleucid ...

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Anonymus in Wikipedia

Anonymus is the Latin word for anonymous, the correct English spelling. The Latin spelling, however, is traditionally used by scholars in the humanities to refer to an ancient writer whose name is not known, or to a manuscript of their work. Many such writers have left valuable historical or literary records through the ages, among them this very p...

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Antimachus in Wikipedia

Antimachus, of Colophon or Claros, Greek poet and grammarian, flourished about 400 BC. Scarcely anything is known of his life. His poetical efforts were not generally appreciated, although he received encouragement from his younger contemporary Plato (Plutarch, Lysander, 18). His chief works were: an epic Thebais, an account of the expedition of ...

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Andocides in Wikipedia

Andocides, or Andokides , (Greek Ἀνδοκίδης, 440–390 BC) was a logographer (speech writer) in Ancient Greece. He was one of the ten Attic orators included in the "Alexandrian Canon" compiled by Aristophanes of Byzantium and Aristarchus of Samothrace in the third century BCE. He was implicated during the Peloponnesian War in the mutilation of the He...

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Anser (genus) in Wikipedia

The waterfowl genus Anser includes all grey geese and usually the white geese too. It belongs to the true geese and swan subfamily (Anserinae). The genus has a Holarctic distribution, with at least one species breeding in any open, wet habitats in the subarctic and cool temperate regions of the Northern Hemisphere in summer. Some also breed further...

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Antimachus I in Wikipedia

Anthimachus I was one of the Greco-Bactrian kings, generally dated from around 185 to 170 BC. Tarn and numismatist Robert Senior place Antimachus as a member of the Euthydemid dynasty and probably as a son of Euthydemus and brother of Demetrius. Other historians, like Narain, mark him as independent of Euthydemid authority, and probably a scion of...

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Andriscus in Wikipedia

Andriscus, (Greek: Ἀνδρίσκος), also spelt Andriskos and often called the "pseudo-Philip", was the last King of Macedonia (149 BC - 148 BC), and ruler of Adramyttium in Aeolis (in western Anatolia). In 168 BC, the Romans had invaded Macedonia and overthrew the king, Perseus, in the First Battle of Pydna. In 149 BC, Andriskos, at that time ruler of...

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Antiochus V in Wikipedia

Antiochus V Eupator (Greek: Αντίοχος Ε' Ευπάτωρ, ca. 172 BC - 161 BC), was a ruler of the Greek Seleucid Empire who reigned 163-161 BC. The dates are from 1 Maccabees 6:16 and 7:1, in A.S.149 (312-149 = 163 B.C.) and A.S.151 (312-151 = 161 B.C.). The calculation assumes that 1 Maccabees used the Babyloian reckoning (Nisan-years: beginning from the ...

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