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Solōn in Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898)

（Σόλων). A celebrated Athenian legislator, born about B.C. 638. His father Execestides was a descendant of Codrus, and his mother was a cousin of the mother of Pisistratus. Execestides had seriously crippled his resources by a too prodigal expenditure; and Solon consequently found it either necessary or convenient in his youth to betake himself to ...

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Sosthenes of Macedon in Wikipedia

Sosthenes (Greek Σωσθένης d. 277 BC) was a Macedonian and general and may have been a king of the Antipatrid dynasty. During the reign of Lysimachus he was his governor in Asia Minor. Sosthenes was elected King by the Macedonian army, but he may or not have reigned as king.[1] Appointed as Strategos he may have declined the title of king as he had ...

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Stesichorus in Wikipedia

Stesichorus (Ancient Greek: Στησίχορος, circa 640 - 555 BC) was the first great poet of the Greek West. He is best known for telling epic stories in lyric metres[1] but he is also famous for some ancient traditions about his life, such as his opposition to the tyrant Phalaris, and the blindness he is said to have incurred and cured by composing ver...

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Sosthĕnes in Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898)

（Σωσθένης). A Macedonian soldier who defeated the Gauls at the time of their invasion of Greece in B.C. 280 (Just. xxiv. 5, 6). See Gallia....

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Simonides of Ceos in Wikipedia

Simonides of Ceos (Ancient Greek: Σιμωνίδης ὁ Κεῖος) (c. 556 BC-468 BC), Greek lyric poet, was born at Ioulis on Kea. He was included in the canonical list of nine lyric poets by the scholars of Hellenistic Alexandria, along with Bacchylides (his nephew) and Pindar (reputedly a bitter rival). Both Bacchylides and Pindar benefited from his innovativ...

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Strabo in Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898)

（Στράβων). A celebrated geographer, a native of Amasia in Pontus. The date of his birth is unknown, but may perhaps be placed about B.C. 63. He lived during the whole of the reign of Augustus, and during the early part, at least, of the reign of Tiberius. He is supposed to have died after A.D. 21. He received a careful education. He studied grammar...

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Semonides of Amorgos in Wikipedia

Semonides (Greek: Σιμωνίδης Ἀμοργῖνος) of Amorgos, was the second, both in time and in reputation, of the three principal iambic poets of the early period of Greek literature, namely, Archilochus, Semonides, and Hipponax. The chief information which we have respecting him is contained in two articles of the Suda from which we learn that his father'...

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Soos in Wikipedia

Soos (ancient Greek: Σόος) was a partially mythological king of Sparta. According to Pausanias Son of Procles, father of Eurypon [1]. His name means stability a key concept for Spartan identity - such personifications of concepts are typical of orally transmitted lists.[2] During his rule Spartans took away freedom of Helots, and took to themselves...

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Stesimbrotos of Thasos in Wikipedia

Stesimbrotos of Thasos (Ancient Greek: Στησίμβροτος, c. 470 BC – c. 420 BC), doubtless raised at Thasos, was a sophist, a rhapsode and logographer, a writer on history, and an opponent of Pericles and reputed author of a political pamphlet On Themistocles, Thucydides, and Pericles. Plutarch used writings by Stesimbrotos in his Life of Pericles, ass...

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Strato of Lampsacus in Wikipedia

Strato of Lampsacus (or Straton, Greek: Στράτων; c. 335-c. 269 BC) was a Peripatetic philosopher, and the third director (scholarch) of the Lyceum after the death of Theophrastus. He devoted himself especially to the study of natural science, and increased the naturalistic elements in Aristotle's thought to such an extent, that he denied the need f...

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