People - Ancient Greece

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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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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