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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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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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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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Alcibiades in Wikipedia

Alcibiades Cleiniou Scambonides (pronounced /ˌælsɨˈbaɪ.ədiːz/ (listen), Greek: Ἀλκιβιάδης Κλεινίου Σκαμβωνίδης, transliterated Alkibiádēs Kleiníou Skambōnidēs meaning Alcibiades, son of Cleinias, from the deme of Skambonidai; c. 450–404 BC), was a prominent Athenian statesman, orator, and general. He was the last famous member of his mother's arist...

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Alcmaeon in Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities

Alcmaeon （Ἀλκμαίων). A native of Argos and son of Amphiaraüs (q.v.) and Eriphylé. As his father, in departing on the expedition of the Seven against Thebes, had bound him and his brother Amphilochus, then mere boys, to avenge him on their faithless mother, Alcmaeon refused to take part in the second expedition, that of the Epigoni (q.v.), till he h...

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Alciphron in Wikipedia

Alciphron (Gr. Ἀλκίφρων) was an ancient Greek sophist, and the most eminent among the Greek epistolographers. Regarding his life or the age in which he lived we possess no direct information whatsoever.[1] Works We possess under the name of Alciphron 116 fictional letters, in 3 books, the object of which is to delineate the characters of certain c...

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Alcmaeon of Croton in Wikipedia

Alcmaeon (Gr. Ἀλκμαίων, Alkmaiōn, gen.: Ἀλκμαίωνος; 5th century BC) of Croton (in Magna Græcia) was one of the most eminent natural philosophers and medical theorists of antiquity. His father's name was Peirithus (Peirithos). He is said by some to have been a pupil of Pythagoras, and he may have been born around 510 BC.[1] Although he wrote mostly ...

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