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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 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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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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Agyrrhius in Wikipedia

Agyrrhius (Gr. Ἀγύῤῥιος) was a native of Collytus in Attica,[1] whom Andocides ironically calls "the noble and the good" (τὸν καλὸν κἀγαθὸν) after being in prison many years for embezzlement of public money.[2] He obtained around 395 BC the restoration of the Theorica, and also tripled the pay for attending the assembly, though he reduced the allow...

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Alcaeus in Wikipedia

Alcaeus may refer to several ancient Greek figures, notably: * Alcaeus (mythology) (disambiguation), the son of Perseus and the father of Amphitryon * Alcaeus of Mytilene, a lyric poet of the archaic period * Alcaeus of Messene, a Greek epigrammatist of the late 3rd/early 2nd century BC * Alcaeus and Philiscus (2nd-century BC), two Epicurean p...

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Alcamenes in Wikipedia

Alcamenes was an ancient Greek sculptor of Lemnos and Athens. He was a younger contemporary of Phidias and noted for the delicacy and finish of his works, among which a Hephaestus and an Aphrodite "of the Gardens" were conspicuous. Pausanias says (v. 10. 8) that he was the author of one of the pediments of the temple of Zeus at Olympia, but this s...

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Alcetas I of Macedon in Wikipedia

Alcetas I of Macedon (Greek: Ἀλκέτας ὁ Μακεδὼν; 576-547 BC) was the 8th king of Μacedon, counting from Karanus, and the 5th, counting from Perdiccas, reigned, according to Eusebius, 29 years. He was the father of Amyntas I, who reigned in the latter part of the 6th century BC. By all accounts, Alcetas was a calm and stable ruler, who sought to pre...

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Agis III

Agis III (Gr. Ἄγις), son of Archidamus III, was the 20th Eurypontid king of Sparta. He succeeded his father in 338 BC, on the very day of the battle of Chaeronea. His reign was short, but eventful, coming as it did during a low period for Sparta, after it had lost significant borderlands to Philip II of Macedon, father of Alexander the Great.[1] I...

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Agoracritus in Wikipedia

Agoracritus (Greek Ἀγοράκριτος, fl. late 5th century BC) was a famous sculptor in ancient Greece,[1] born on the island of Paros, who flourished from about Olympiad 85 to 88, that is, from about 436 to 424 BC.[2] Only four of his works are mentioned: a statue of Zeus and one of Athena Itonia in the temple of that goddess at Athens; a statue, proba...

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Agrippa (astronomer) in Wikipedia

Agrippa (unkn-fl. 92 AD) was a Greek astronomer. The only thing that is known about him regards an astronomical observation that he made in 92 AD, which is cited by Ptolemy (Almagest, VII, 3). Ptolemy writes that in the twelfth year of the reign of Domitian, on the seventh day of the Bithynian month Metrous, Agrippa observed the occultation of a pa...

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