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Achaeus in Wikipedia

Achaeus may refer to: Achaeus (son of Xuthus), mythical founder of Achaean race Achaeus (Greek: Ἀχαιός) was, according to nearly all traditions, a son of Xuthus and Creusa, and consequently a brother of Ion and grandson of Hellen. The Achaeans regarded him as the author of their race, and derived from him their own name as well as that of Achaia, ...

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Achaeus in Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities

A Greek tragic poet of Eretria, born about B.C. 484, a contemporary of Sophocles, and especially famous in the line of satyric drama. He wrote about forty plays, of which only small fragments are preserved. These have been edited by Urlichs (Bonn, 1834)....

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Chaerēmon in Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities

（Χαιρήμων). A Greek tragedian, who flourished at Athens about B.C. 380. His style was smooth and picturesque, but his plays were artificial, and better adapted for reading than for performance. A few fragments of them remain, which show some imaginative power (Arist. Poet. i. 9). Ed. by Bartsch (Măinz, 1843)....

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Acron in Wikipedia

Acron, son of Xenon, was an eminent Greek physician born at Agrigentum. His exact date is not known; but, as he is mentioned as being contemporary with Empedocles, who died about the beginning of the Peloponnesian war, he must have lived in the fifth century BC. From Sicily he went to Athens, and there opened a philosophical school (εσοφίστευεν). ...

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Aelianus Tacticus in Wikipedia

Aelianus Tacticus (Ancient Greek: Αιλιανός Τακτικός) was a Greek military writer of the 2nd century, resident at Rome. Aelian's military treatise in fifty-three chapters on the tactics of the Greeks, titled "On Tactical Arrays of the Greeks" (Περί Στρατηγικών Τάξεων Ελληνικών), is dedicated to Hadrian, though this is probably a mistake for Trajan,...

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Acrotatus I in Wikipedia

Acrotatus I (Gr. Ακρότατος) was the son of Cleomenes II, king of Sparta. He incurred the displeasure of an influential group of Spartan citizens by opposing the decree which was to release from infamy all who had fled from the battle in which Antipater defeated Agis in 331 BC.[1] He was thus glad to accept the offer from the Agrigentines who had as...

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Achaeus of Eretria in Wikipedia

Achaeus of Eretria (Greek: Aχαιός; born 484 BC in Euboea) was a Greek playwright author of tragedies and satyr plays, variously said to have written 24, 30, or 44 plays, of which 19 titles are known, some of which include Adrastus, Linus, Cycnus, Eumenides, Philoctetes, Pirithous, Theseus, and Œdipus. His first play was produced in 447 BC and won ...

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Acrotatus II in Wikipedia

Acrotatus (d.262 BC) was King of Sparta from 265 to 262 BC. He was the son of Areus I, and grandson of Acrotatus I. He had unlawful intercourse with Chilonis, the young wife of Cleonymus, uncle of his father Areus. It was this, together with the disappointment of not obtaining the throne, which led Cleonymus to invite Pyrrhus to Sparta in 272 BC. ...

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Acusilaus in Wikipedia

Acusilaus (Ancient Greek: Ἀκουσίλαος) of Argos, son of Cabas or Scabras, was a Greek logographer and mythographer who lived in the latter half of the 6th century BC but whose work survives only in fragments and summaries of individual points.[1] Acusilaus was called the son of Cabras or Scabras, and it is not known whether he was of Peloponnesian ...

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Aesopus in Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities

Aesōpus (Αἴσωπος). A famous writer of fables, the first author who created an independent class of stories about animals, so that in a few generations his name and person had become typical of that entire class of literature. In course of time, thanks to his plain, popular manner, the story of his own life was enveloped in an almost inextricable ti...

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