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Alexander Polyhistor in Wikipedia

Lucius Cornelius Alexander Polyhistor (Ancient Greek: Ἀλέξανδρος ὁ Πολυΐστωρ) was a Greek scholar who was enslaved by the Romans during the Mithridatic War and taken to Rome as a tutor. After his release, he continued to live in Italy as a Roman citizen. He was so productive a writer that he earned the surname polyhistor. The majority of his writin...

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Ameinocles in Wikipedia

Ameinocles (Ancient Greek: Ἀμεινοκλῆς, fl. 8th century BC) was a Corinthian shipbuilder, who visited Samos about 704 BC, and built four ships for the Samians.[1] Pliny the Elder says that Thucydides men­tioned Ameinocles as the inventor of the trireme;[2] but this is a mistake, for Thucydides merely states that triremes were first built at Corinth ...

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Amynander of Athamania in Wikipedia

Amynander or Amynandros king of Athamanians in south Epirus, first appears in history as mediator between Philip V of Macedon and the Aetolians. (208 BC.) When the Romans were about to wage war on Philip, they sent ambassadors to Amynander to inform him of their intention. On the commencement of the war he came to the camp of the Romans and promis...

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Amelesagoras in Wikipedia

Amelesagoras (Ancient Greek: Ἀμελησαγόρας) (or Melesagoras, Μελησαγόρας, as he is called by others) of Chalcedon, was an early Greek historian.[1] The histories of Gorgias and Eudemus of Naxos both borrowed from him.[2][3][4] Maximus Tyrius speaks of a Melesagoras, a native of Eleusis,[5] and Antigonus of Carystus of an Amelesagoras of Athens,[6] ...

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Anacreon in Wikipedia

Anacreon (Greek Ἀνακρέων) (570 BC – 488 BC) was a Greek lyric poet, notable for his drinking songs and hymns. Later Greeks included him in the canonical list of nine lyric poets. Life Anacreon was born at Teos, an Ionian city on the coast of Asia Minor. The name and identity of his father is a matter of dispute, with different authorities naming f...

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Alexander I of Epirus in Wikipedia

Alexander I of Epirus (Greek: Ἀλέξανδρος Α' της Ηπείρου, 370 - 331 BC), also known as Alexander Molossus (Greek: Ἀλέξανδρος ο Μολοσσός), was a king of Epirus (350 - 331 BC) of the Aeacid dynasty.[1] As the son of Neoptolemus I and brother of Olympias, he was an uncle of Alexander the Great. He came at an early age to the court of Philip II of Maced...

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Ameipsias in Wikipedia

Ameipsias (Ancient Greek: Ἀμειψίας, fl. late 5th century BC) of Athens was a Ancient Greek comic poet, a contemporary of Aristophanes, whom he twice bested in the dramatic contests. His Konnos (Κόννος) gained a second prize at the City Dionysia in 423 BC, when Aristophanes won the third prize with The Clouds.[1][2] Konnos appears to have had the s...

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Anacharsis in Wikipedia

Anacharsis (Greek: Ἀνάχαρσις) was a Scythian philosopher who travelled from his homeland on the northern shores of the Black Sea to Athens in the early 6th century BC and made a great impression as a forthright, outspoken "barbarian", apparently a forerunner of the Cynics, though none of his works have survived. Life Anacharsis the son of Gnurus,[...

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Alexander of Abonoteichus in Wikipedia

Alexander of Abonoteichus (c.105 - c.170 CE), also called Alexander the Paphlagonian, or the false prophet Alexander, was a Greek mystic and oracle, and the founder of the Glycon cult that briefly achieved wide popularity in the Roman world. The contemporary writer Lucian reports that he was an utter fraud - the god Glycon was supposedly constructe...

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Alexander of Aphrodisias in Wikipedia

Alexander of Aphrodisias (fl. late 2nd early 3rd century CE) was a Peripatetic philosopher and the most celebrated of the Ancient Greek commentators on the writings of Aristotle. He was styled, by way of pre-eminence, "the expositor" (ὁ ἐξηγητής).[1] Life and career Alexander was a native of Aphrodisias in Caria and came to Athens towards the end ...

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