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Alexis in Wikipedia

Alexis (Ancient Greek: Ἀλέξης, 394 BC – c. 275 BC) was a Greek comic poet of the Middle Comedy, born at Thurii in Magna Graeca and taken early to Athens,[1] where he became a citizen, of the deme Oion (Οἶον), and the tribe Leontides.[2][3] It was said he had a son, called Stephanus, who also wrote thrillers.[4] He appears to have been rather addic...

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Anaxarchus in Wikipedia

Anaxarchus (pronounced /ˌænəɡˈzɑrkəs/, us dict: ăn′·əg·zârk′·əs) or Anaxarch (/ˈænəzɑrk/, ăn′·ə·zârk; c. 380 - c. 320 BC) (Greek: Ἀνάξαρχος) was a Greek philosopher of the school of Democritus, was born at Abdera in Thrace. He was the companion and friend of Alexander the Great in his Asiatic campaigns. According to Diogenes Laertius, in response ...

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Alexander Balas in Wikipedia

Alexander Balas (Greek Ἀλέξανδρoς Bάλας), ruler of the Greek Seleucid kingdom 150-146 BC, was a native of Smyrna of humble origin, but gave himself out to be the son of Antiochus IV Epiphanes and Laodice IV and heir to the Seleucid throne. Along with his sister Laodice VI, the youngster Alexander was "discovered" by Heracleides, a former minister o...

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Anaxidamus in Wikipedia

Anaxidamus (Αναξίδαμος) was a king of Sparta, 11th of the Eurypontids. He was the son of Zeuxidamus and contemporary with Anaxander, and lived to the conclusion of the Messenian Wars, 668 BC (Paus. iii. 7. § 5.)...

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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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Ammonius Saccas in Wikipedia

Ammonius Saccas (3rd century AD) (Ancient Greek: Ἀμμώνιος Σακκᾶς) was a Greek philosopher from Alexandria who was often referred to as one of the founders of Neoplatonism. He is mainly known as the teacher of Plotinus, whom he taught for eleven years from 232 to 243. He was undoubtably the biggest influence on Plotinus in his development of Neoplat...

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Alypius (music writer) in Wikipedia

Alypius of Alexandria was a Greek writer on music who flourished c. 360.[1] Of his works, only a small fragment has been preserved, under the title of Introduction to Music (Εἰσαγωγη Μουσική).[2] Works The work of Alypius consists wholly, with the exception of a short introduction, of lists of the symbols used (both for voice and instrument) to de...

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Amphis in Wikipedia

Amphis was an Athenian Comic poet of uncertain origin from approximately the 4th century BC. Pollux [1] seems to refer to Amphis as a Middle Comic poet, and Amphis' own repeated references to the philosopher Plato[2] place him in the early to mid-4th century BCE. His name is not Athenian, and he was probably from the island of Andros (thus Kirchne...

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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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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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